Reading Events

Public Lecture - Beyond plain English: why they find it so hard to talk to us

Date : 08 December 2009

Time : 20:00

Location : Palmer Building

Contact : publiclectureseries@reading.ac.uk
0118 378 4313

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Professor Rob Waller (Professor of Information Design, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, School of Arts, English and Communication Design)

Why do organisations keep talking to us in ways we can't understand, when plain English seems so simple? In this lecture, Rob Waller will identify some of the issues that lie behind the poor communications we receive from government agencies and business organisations. He will try to answer the question: why does it persist? Rob will talk about new research being developed at the University of Reading's Simplification Centre and how it's being shared with public-facing organisations.