Resources

Under the Resources tab, you will find links to materials about many of my sessions and workshops.

on Translation

on Plain Language

on Education

And below are useful links to reference materials:

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English​

  • A Plain English Handbook: How to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents. (1999) SEC.
    https://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf
  • Asprey, M. (2010): Plain Language for Lawyers (4th edition). NSW Federation Press.
  • Baker, M. (1992). In Other Words. Routledge
  • Baldwin, C. (1998). Plain Language and the Document Revolution. Lamp Lighter Press.
  • Butt, P. & Castle, R. (2013): Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (3rd
    edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Cutts, M. (1995). The Plain English Guide. Oxford University Press.
  • Einsohn, A. (2011). The copyeditor’s handbook: a guide for book publishing and corporate communications. (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Flesch, R. F., & Lass, A. H. (1996). The classic guide to better writing. New York: Harper
    Perennial.
  • Garner, B. (2013). Legal Writing in Plain Language: A Text With Exercises. University of
    Chicago Press, 2nd ed.
  • Halliday, M. A. K., & Hasan, R. (1987). Cohesion in English. Longman.
  • Kehrwald Cook, C. (1986). Line by Line: How to Edito Your Own Writing. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Nadau, S. (2012). The Neural Architecture of Grammar. MIT Press
  • Lamott, A. (2009). Bird by bird: Some Instructions on writing and Life. Melbourne: Scribe.
  • Lodge, D. (1996). The practice of writing. Penguin Group.
  • OECD https://www.oecd.org/edu/skills-beyond-school/41529765.pdf
  • Pinker, S. (2015). The sense of style: The thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century. Penguin.
  • Stephens, C. (ed. (2010). Plain Language in Plain English. PlainLanguageWizardry
  • Williams, J. (1995). Style Towards Clarity and Grace. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Zinsser, W. (2016). On Writing Well. Harper Perennial.

Español

  • Cala, I., & Cruz, C. (2015). Cala y Cruz las dos caras de la comunicación. Taller del Exito.
  • Cohen, S. (2015). Redaccion sin dolor. Planeta Publishing.Escobar, A. M., & Potowski, K. (2015). El español de los Estados Unidos. Cambridge University Press.
  • Leeman, J., & Lacorte, M. (2009). Español en Estados Unidos y otros contextos de contacto: sociolingüística, ideología y pedagogía / Spanish in the United States and other contact environments. Madrid: Iberoamericana.
  • Lipski, J. M. (2008). Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press.
  • López, J. B. (2015). Manual del español urgente. Barcelona: Debate. 
  • Ordóñez, S. G., & Martín, E. C. (2014). El buen uso del español. Madrid: Real Academia Española.
  • Ripa, J. T. (2013). Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto.
  • Seco, M. (2011). Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española. (10th ed.). Madrid: Espasa Calpe.
  • Zorrilla, A. M. (2015). El Español de los traductores y otros estudios. CTPCBA.