From Black codes to recodification [electronic resource] : removing the veil from regulatory writing / Miriam F. Williams.
Material type: TextSeries: Baywood's technical communications seriesPublication details: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., 2010Description: v, 161 p. : illISBN: 9780895036612 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Law -- United States -- Language | Administrative regulation drafting -- United States | Bill drafting -- United States | African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1196/0730764 LOC classification: KF250 | .W548 2010Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : race, regulations, and trust -- Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust -- Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights -- Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust -- Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both? -- An invention heuristic for regulatory writing.
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