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.........................................................................................................................Book DescriptionLegal 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 to be 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 message 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 after1 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..........................................................................................................................Contents1. What is Really wrong with legal and Business Language2. Avoid Verbosity3. Keep Your Sentences as Short as Possible4. Make your writing Readable by choosing familiar words5. Reduce the use of Shall and shall not6. Put the Words in a logical order7. Avoid Negative language8. Prefer Active Voice9. Aviod Latinism: Prefer English Words and Phases to Non-English ones10. Punctuate Properly11. Drafting Company Resolutions in Plain Language12. Useful tips for good writing styleAppendix: Sample managing Director’s Agreement in Plain English Plain English Academy.........................................................................................................................Author DetailsDr. K.R. Chandratre is a practising company secretary with over 25 years' experience. He has an impressive academic background, and holds a Master's degree in commerce, an LL.B. and Ph.D. from the University of Pune. He was a President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India during 1996 and the Vice-President for two years. He was a member of Working Group on Redrafting of the Companies Act, 1956 constituted by Government of India in August 1996, to draft a new Companies Act to be substituted for the Companies Act, 1956, which resulted in Companies Bill, 1997. He also served as the Chairman of the Committee on 'Delisting of Securities' constituted by SEBI in March 1997. He was the President of Pune Stock Exchange, Pune, India, during April 2004 to April 2005. Dr. Chandratre has so far authored over 1000 articles and 24 books on various subjects in the areas of Corporate Laws and Corporate Secretarial Practice. He has also addressed more than 300 seminars, workshops, conferences and conventions besides contributing papers at national and international levels.Dr. Chandratre is the India representative of ‘Clarity’, International Association promoting plain legal language. He is practicing as Company Secretary and possesses wide-ranged experience spanning over two decades in academics, industry and practice. Apart from articles and books on corporate law subjects, Dr. Chandratre has written many articles on legal and business writing in plain English and a book entitled A Guide to Legal and Business Writing in English. He has also conducted several programmes on writing in Plain English for lawyers, company secretaries, students of company secretary course and business managers. Dr. Chandratre has completed Plain English Courses of the plain English Campaign and the Word Centre, UK. He has also completed Business English Course of the Writers Bureau, Uk..........................................................................................................................
