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Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to format plain text documents. Write docs for your GitHub projects, edit your GitHub profile README etc. You fill find it all here.

• Plain Language Web Writing Tips and Checklist - Download this checklist from Digital.gov to use as a guide while writing your course content. • AI Tools - Prompt your preferred AI tool to rewrite text or summarize highly technical material in plain language.

Plain Language is wording, structuring and designing the writing so that it’s as clear as possible for the intended audience. Think about the last time you received an email with dense paragraphs, or agreed to Terms and Conditions that you didn’t read so you could go to a website, or tried to understand your mobile bill?

Plain Language Checklist Puts most important information first Focuses on need to know, not nice to know Avoids jargon and acronyms. If you can’t avoid jargon, explain what the jargon means! Has words that are 3 syllables or less Uses short sentences. One idea per sentence. Has less than 15-20 words per sentence Uses common, “living room ...

Plain Language: Clear and Simple – Trainer’s Guide. Retrieved from: Nichol, M. (2013, July 4). 20 Strategies for Writing in Plain Language. Retrieved from: Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English Language. Retrieved from: PlainLanguage.gov. (Unknown). What is …

This database is the first step to researching the best practices for writing and evaluating plain language in order to standardize the production of plain language through the development of universal guidelines.

Today, all of us who write can find immediate guidance on the principles of plain language at the government’s website called plainlanguage.gov. The info in this tipsheet comes directly from its how-to’s, tools, checklists, and examples, sometimes even verbatim.

ARE YOU WRITING EFFECTIVELY FOR YOUR AUDIENCE IN TERMS OF ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, READING LEVEL, AND JARGON? ARE YOU WRITING IN AN ACTIVE VOICE? IS YOUR GRAMMAR AS SHORT AND SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE? Format Audience Grammar Voice USE HEADINGS Writing headings as questions can be helpful for presentations LISTS No more than 7 items in a list

This set of articles provides everything you need to start technical writing using plain language. Our goal is to make it easier to write helpful technical documents. 1. What is plain language? 2. Plain Language Writing Techniques. 3. Technical documents that benefit from plain language. 4.