plain language - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:03:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png plain language - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Advocacy, please https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/02/06/advocacy-please/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:55:05 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2276 I think plain language is awesome. I’m glad the movement is gaining momentum and that there are enthusiastic advocates out there trying to make plain language the default. And I’m excited to be learning more about how to improve my own plain language skills. But I’m not so excited about the current of language shaming that… Read More »Advocacy, please

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]]> 2276 International Plain Language Day https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/10/international-plain-language-day/ Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:32:45 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1829 October 13th is International Plain Language Day (IPLDay), a celebration of clear communication and the plain language movement. In Vancouver, we celebrated IPLDay a week early at Communication Convergence, a conference that brought together communicators from different fields for an afternoon of discussion. I’m fairly new to the concept of plain language, and throughout the afternoon I began to reflect… Read More »International Plain Language Day

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]]> 1829 Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/24/forget-zombie-nouns-watch-out-for-vampire-verbs/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:53:18 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1109 I don’t often leave a six-hour seminar with more energy than when I came in, but if it’s six hours of language stuff, I’m pumped. This past Saturday the BC branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada hosted a workshop called Eight Step Editing, delivered by veteran editor and writer Jim Taylor, who developed the… Read More »Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs

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