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Worksixteen plates
Noticesfour plates
Plain Languagefour plates
On the Recordfour plates
Correctionsfour plates
Notesscope and method

Series plate B, a wide two-tone drawing introducing the Plain Language series. — Series B · plates 05 to 08

Plain Language

Plain language is not a register of shorter words. It is a set of decisions about who is named, what is measured and where the reader is asked to do work. These essays take those decisions one at a time.

Catalogue plate 05, series B, a flat two-tone drawing for the Plain Language series. — B · Plate 05 · Nouns That Hide the Actor · 602 words

Catalogue plate 06, series B, a flat two-tone drawing for the Plain Language series. — B · Plate 06 · A Sentence Is a Unit of Attention · 562 words

Catalogue plate 07, series B, a flat two-tone drawing for the Plain Language series. — B · Plate 07 · Numbers in Running Prose · 527 words

Catalogue plate 08, series B, a flat two-tone drawing for the Plain Language series. — B · Plate 08 · The Glossary You Never Wrote · 608 words