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Williams, Miriam F.

From Black codes to recodification removing the veil from regulatory writing / [electronic resource] : Miriam F. Williams. - Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., 2010. - v, 161 p. : ill. - Baywood's technical communications series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law--Language.--United States
Administrative regulation drafting--United States.
Bill drafting--United States.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Texas

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KF250 / .W548 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 323.1196/0730764