The four plain language principles are relevance, findability, understandability, and usability, describing connected outcomes for readers. They guide content, structure, expression, and evaluation together, because a clear sentence cannot compensate for missing information or an inaccessible action path.
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- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainMeaning & Clarity
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.