Plain Language for Arts & Culture
This guide was written by Reid Caplan, Kevin Gotkin, and Isaiah Madison. It will teach you how to write in plain language. Plain language is a way to make writing easier to understand.
This guide is for people who work at arts organizations. You might be:
- Someone who runs an organization that shows works of art
- A volunteer at a place for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- The person who updates the website or social media accounts of an arts organization
- An art teacher
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Plain language can be done! You might think it’s too much work or too difficult to try writing in plain language. It will get easier once you start. You are doing something really important every time you try. You won’t learn how to do it overnight. But you will learn a lot as you get used to it.
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