Legal and Business Writing in Plain English is a plain language handbook that will help you to develop skills for writing English in plain language, with emphasis on techniques of English writing in plain English. This book will be useful to any person who is involved in legal, bureaucratic or business writing. It will prove a tool of trade for judges, lawyers, law professors, law researchers, company secretaries and chartered accountants, and students of professional courses, Government officers, Legislative drafters, company legal departments, Law Ministry officers, and business managers to improve their writing and legal drafting skills.

The book weaves together the Twelve Guidelines for writing in Plain English to make easy for the writers to put their massage across efficiently and effectively so as to enable their readers to read and understand the writing effortlessly and clearly.

The book is divided in 12 chapters which discuss the above guidelines in detail with the help of numerous 'before and after' examples.

The Book contains (1) The Glossary of Plain Alternatives to Wordy Phrases; (2) The Glossary of Plain Alternatives to Antiquated and Complex Words and Phrases; and (3) The Glossary of Confusing Words. Besides, the book provides several tables of words and phrases to be avoided and to be preferred in any writing or drafting.

In the last Chapter, the book also deals with style and structure guidelines for creating reader-friendly documents. Last but not least, the book gives in a few sample documents written in Plain English 

Book Review

"This handy 'guide' comes at a time when the world realizes that the knowledge of English Language can make life simpler, especially at the international level. Even for those who are using the language in a daily basis will find this book a useful tool to make the life of readers of their documents easy.

The book is meant for written business and legal communication. Both these areas are today in focus given the increasing cross-cultural communication. People from different cultures need to ensure smooth transfer of data and thought which this book will definitely help catalyse because of its low price and rather neat and error-free presentation" - TIMES OF INDIA