References - Setting out documents

Arditi, A. (1999) Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight, Lighthouse International, http://www.lighthouse.org/print_leg.htm

Australian Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Plain English Manual, http://www.opc.gov.au/about/documents.htm

Black, A., Stiff, P. & Waller, R. (1992) Designing Business Documents, Adapted by C. Burke.  http://www.textmatters.com/tm/PDF/dbd.pdf

Connolly, G.K. (1998) Legibility and Readability of Small Print: Effects of Font, Observer Age and Spatial Vision, http://www.psych.ucalgary.ca/PACE/VA-Lab/gkconnol/Introduction.html

Hartley, J. (1996). “Text Design”. In D.H. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of research for educational communications and technology (pp. 795-820).New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

Hay, N.J. (1999) Reading and Typography, http://hubel.sfasu.edu/courseinfo/SL99/typography.html

PLAIN, Writing User-Friendly Documents, Plain Language Action and Information Network, http://www.plainlanguage.gov/

US Securities and Exchange Commission, A Plain English Handbook,  http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/englishhndbk.htm October 2003

Wagner, E. Fight the Fog: Write Clearly, European Translation Service, http://europa.eu.int/comm/translation/en/ftfog/index.htm

 

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