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Endnotes
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For a good overview of the history of
written literacy and its social meanings see Steven Lagerfeld, "The Reading
Revolution," Wilson Quarterly (Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson
International Centre for Scholars, Spring, 1986), page 104. |
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These insights into the early life of
Shakespeare are courtesy of Brian Bedford's performance, The Lunatic, the
Lover, and the Poet, compiled by Bedford and performed at Stratford,
Ontario in August, 2002. The quotation and reference are from King Richard
III, Act 4, Scene IV and Hamlet's speech to the players. |
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Cawdrey and Chaucer quoted by Christine
Mowat from Tom McArthur, "The Pedigree of plain English," in English
Today, 1991. |
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Records in English, 1731. Coke is
quoted from Commentary upon Littleton, in Butler, 19th edition, 1832 by
David Melinkoff, Language of the Law (Little, Brown and Company, 1963.)
This delightful information is all from the Plain English Campaign, Language
on Trial: The plain English guide to legal writing (London: Robson Books
Ltd., 1996). |
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See the graph on page 4 in David
Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and writing in modern Europe
(Cambridge and Oxford, England and Malden, MA: Polity Press and Blackwell
Publishers, 2000). My thanks to CLAD Associate Erika Steffer for giving me this
enlightening book. |
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Nicholas Lemann, "Dumbing Down: Did
progressivism ruin our public schools?" The New Yorker, September 25,
2000. |
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George Orwell, "Politics and the English
Language," Selected Essays (Toronto: Penguin Books Ltd., 1957), pages
143 and 157. |
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Many thanks to Mark Adler, an early
member of Clarity, for this brief history of the association. |
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Dr. Ginny Redish and Dr. Susan Kleimann,
"The US Document Design Center: A Retrospective" in Clarity, No. 43,
May, 1999. |
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Communication Research Institute of
Australia, Forms Data Sheets. (Canberra: Communication Research
Institute of Australia Inc., 1990). |
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