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Avoiding Jargon - Keeping Your Message Clear

2 essays that contain useful tools about sector jargon and how to avoid it to keep your message clear.

Keeping your message clear by avoiding jargon: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's "Jargon Files"

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's "Jargon Files" contain very interesting and usefull articles and tools about sector jargon and how to avoid it to keep your message clear.  Of particular interest are Tony Proscio's two essays In Other Words and Bad Words for Good.  Both essays are available in PDF Format.  You can download Acrobat Reader here.

The Jargon Files: www.emcf.org/pub/jargon/index.htm