Plain Language Guide Series

The Plain Writing Act of 2010 established the requirement that content for the public is written for its specific audience. These guides help you to understand how to create, design and test content so your specific audience understands it.

While not precisely “plain language”, the homepage’s strange execution of the en-dashes –with a space before them but not after them, like this –is ironically antithetical to the big idea behind the government’s writing requirements.