From Black Codes to Recodification Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing [Paperback]

CHAPTER I. Introduction: Race, Regulations, and Trust
 Traditional Styles of Regulatory Writing
 Contemporary Arguments for Plain English Regulations
 Organization of Book

CHAPTER II. Case Study ITexas Black Codes of 1866: Identifying Discourse Markers of Trust
 Identifying Discourse Markers of Trust
 Discourse Analysis of Texas Black Codes
 Findings of Discourse Analysis

CHAPTER III. Texas Laws and Tacit Laws: Redefining Black Labor from The Nadir to Civil Rights
 Redefining Apprenticeship and Contract Labor
 Rationale for Contemporary Studies

CHAPTER IV. Case Study IITexas Agencies: The Challenge of Evoking Trust
 Contextual Inquiry Meeting at State Agency
 Artifacts Collected during Contextual Inquiry Study
 Process Meeting with Group of Policy Writers
 Analysis of Regulatory Writing Tasks

CHAPTER V. Case Study IIIContemporary Black Business Owners: Legalese, Plain English, or Both?
 The Focus Group in Context

CHAPTER VI. An Invention Heuristic for Regulatory Writing
 Implications of Contextual Inquiry and Focus Group Studies
 What Information Do New Policy Writers Need to Know?
 What Style Meets the Needs of the Government Agency and the Public?
 A Rulemaking Heuristic to Evoke Trust in Distrustful Audiences
 Considerations for the Future of Regulatory Writing

APPENDICES
 Appendix I: Texas Black Codes in Legalese and Plain English
 Appendix II: Rhetorical Analysis of Texas Black Codes in Legalese and Plain English
 Appendix III: Contextual Inquiry Transcript
 Appendix IV: The Focus Group Meeting

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