Unlocking access to information through plain language
Have you ever been excited to learn something new, but when you started reading about it, you felt completely lost and ended up setting it aside? A large volume of knowledge production is carried out by researchers, who typically convey it using the specialized language of their subject field. This often includes specialized terminology and expressions, acronyms or other abbreviated forms, stylistic conventions, and even particular ways of structuring or formatting a text. The end result is comprehensible to other researchers in the same subject field, but it may be far less accessible to other groups.
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