Clear language

The importance of clear language

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. Most manuscripts submitted to Acta Orthopaedica, as well as to other medical scientific journals, describe treatment effects, complications, side effects, quality of l...

Controlled Language Support for Perkins Approved Clear English (PACE)

We present an account of our approach to developing Controlled Language specifications and Controlled Language checking software for customized applications. A structured approach combines document flow analysis, corpus analysis, and negotiation with relevant stakeholders. Modular reuse of previous Controlled Language specifications is a key ingredient, allowing relatively simple tailoring of s...

[A plea for clear language on vaccine safety].

Clear view, clear benefit.

n this issue of the Journal, a clinical investigation by Ozaki et al focuses on the flushing solution used for image acquisition with frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT).1 The authors present the cross-sectional area measurement as a quantitative evaluation using low-molecular dextran L (LMD-L) approximate to that of contrast media, and the non-inferiority of LMD-L to contras...

LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN To appear in Advances in Lansuaue Education (CLEAR)

There are many myths about bilingualism in children, many of them negative ones. Some educators have cautioned against the use of two languages in children, claiming that bilingualism causes cognitive, Social, and emotional damage to children. Although few scholars today would claim that bilingualism could cognitively harm children, this view has been advocated in the past, and can still be occ...