From Black codes to recodification : removing the veil from regulatory writing / Miriam Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Miriam F., author.

Series:

Baywood's Technical Communications Series.

Baywood's Technical Communications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States--Language.

Law.

Administrative regulation drafting--United States.

Administrative regulation drafting.

Bill drafting--United States.

Bill drafting.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Texas--History.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : race, regulations, and trust

Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust

Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights

Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust

Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both?

An invention heuristic for regulatory writing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-351-84421-0

1-351-84420-2

1-315-22454-2

0-89503-661-4

9781315224541

OCLC:

814705882