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Apr 14 2021

Five tips to optimize plain language summaries for a global audience

In this post, Deborah Wyatt and co-author Marisha Fonseca from Impact Science at Cactus Communications, share five simple ‘hacks’ to make plain language summaries (PLS) of research papers easier to translate.

  1. Avoid noun stacks
  2. Don’t omit relative pronouns
  3. Choose terms carefully
  4. Structure sentences simply
  5. Avoid ambiguity

They say that by following these principles “will lead to PLS that are easier to process for not just non-native speakers but also native English speakers”.

Read the post in full here.

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Written by Joanne Walker · Categorized: PLSP Blog · Tagged: plain language summaries

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