Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-1998
Keywords
Legal writing, Plain language
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Abstract
In an effort to provide investors with full and fair disclosures in language they can understand, the SEC has proposed rules to require that disclosures be written in Plain English.' These rules outline six "clear writing techniques": (1) active voice; (2) short sentences; (3) definite, concrete, everyday language; (4) tabular presentations; (5) no jargon; and (6) no multiple negatives. The January and March 1998 Scrivener article addressed the first two techniques; this article addresses the third.
Recommended Citation
K.K. DuVivier, Plain English Part III: Choosing the Right Words, 27 Colo. Law. 31 (May 1998).
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