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Plain Language Handbook A Plain Language Handbook for Legal Writers
Carswell Thomson Professional Publishers,
Scarborough, Ontario 1999.

bullet dot Exploring meanings of plain language, CLARITY, No. 52, November, 2004.
bullet dot Top 10 Writing Tips to Ensure Clients Understand You, co-authored with John Blois; Canadian Bar Association website, November, 2004
bullet dot Alberta Agriculture saves money with plain language, CLARITY, No. 38, January, 1997.
bullet dot A Plain Language Book for the Nineties, a review of Michele Asprey's Plain Language for Lawyers, inRapport, March, 1993.
bullet dot Combating White Collar Illiteracy: Teaching the Learned to Write, Literacy Works, Vol.3, No. 2, Winter, 1992.
bullet dot Buddhists, Running, and Plain Language in Calgary, Part I, Michigan Bar Journal, July issue, 1994.
bullet dot Buddhists, Running, and Plain Language in Calgary, Part II, Michigan Bar Journal, August issue, 1994.
bullet dot Plain language columns for Law Now, Legal Resource Centre, University of Alberta, 1995-1996.
  dot  -  dotAlderman or Councillor - Is it a Tempest in a Teapot?
  dot  -  dotA plain language writer considers consideration
  dot  -  dotWith all due respect to legalese
  dot  -  dotPlain language: gone underground?
bullet dot A Step in the Right Direction for Law School Legal Drafting Texts, a review of Barbara Child's Drafting Legal Writing in Rapport, September, 1993.
bullet dot Do Universities Breed Illiteracy? Queen's Alumni Review, Queen's University, 1991.
bullet dot A Plain Language Audit on The Decline and Fall of Gobbledygook, a paper for the Canadian Bar Association's Conference, 1991.

Other Plain Language Writing Projects

bullet dotAlberta Registries Forms
bullet dotAdult Literacy Bylaws
bullet dotBanff Centre booklet
bullet dotCity of Calgary lease
bullet dotCity of Edmonton Community Services Brochure
bullet dotCity of Edmonton Municipal Bylaw
bullet dotCollege of Physicians and Surgeons Letters Prototypes
bullet Credit Union Central mortgage
bullet dotHealthcare materials
bullet dotLakeland College Release and Indemnity Form
bullet dotMD & A for petroleum annual report
bullet dotMunicipal Council minutes format
bullet dotPCL Construction Proposal
bullet dotPetroleum Joint Venture Association agreement
bullet dotRegional Municipality of Wood Buffalo assessment services agreement
bullet dotUnited Way Report to Agencies
bullet dotUniversity Faculty agreement
bullet dotUniversity Release form
bullet dotWestern Gas Marketing sales contracts and precedents