Reading and Writing Public Documents

Reading and Writing Public Documents
Author: Daniël Janssen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9027299471

Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks. Document designers, linguists and other communication experts in the Netherlands have been studying public documents from a design point of view as well as empirically for decades. In this book, the most prominent of these researchers present the results of their work, collectively giving an overview of various recurring problems in government-to-public communication, and providing suggestions for problem solving.

Reading and Writing Public Documents

Reading and Writing Public Documents
Author: Daniël Janssen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789027232014

Annotation Government documents--forms, brochures, letters, and policy papers--that are difficult to understand create problems both for the public they're intended to help and for government agencies. In this collection, researchers from five universities in the Netherlands survey recurring problems in government documents and offer possible solutions. The contributors are linguists, document designers, and other communication experts who have studied public documents both empirically and from a design point of view. Though the subject is Dutch documents, the text is in English, and the work may be of interest to those investigating government communication in other nations as well as those who produce similar documents in the private sector. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Freedom to Read

The Freedom to Read
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1953
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Writing Public Policy

Writing Public Policy
Author: Catherine Findley Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Communication in public administration
ISBN: 9780195379822

Public policy making -- Communication in the process -- Definition : frame the problem -- Legislative history : know the record -- Position paper : know the arguments -- Petitions and proposals : request action or propose policy -- Briefing memo or opinion statement : inform policy makers -- Testimony : witness in a public hearing -- Written public comment : influence administration -- Continuity and change.

Public and Professional Writing

Public and Professional Writing
Author: A. Surma
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005-02-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230513891

This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and reader. Arguing that ethics, imagination and rhetoric are integral to professional writing praxis, the book encourages students to look critically at various writing practices in a range of contexts. A textbook for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in Linguistics, Communication, Journalism and Media Studies.

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics
Author: Patrick Heinrich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351818392

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.