Articles on Dropbox

• Plain language substitutions for Latin
• The Facets of the General Public as Audience
• Plain Language Editing
• Bathetic Word List
• Judicial Obligation to use Plain Language
• Low Literacy and Systemic Discrimination: Challenge Access to Justice Initiatives
• The Right to Understand in Canada
• Working with lawyers on your plain language project ​

Articles on Research Gate

​<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cheryl_Stephens2">Cheryl Maude Stephens on ResearchGate</a>

Older, print publications

Cheryl specializes in legal plain language. 

• Clarity Is Impressive, guest post on Language Lab 
  http://www.thelanguagelab.ca/posts/clarity-is-impressive/
• Working with lawyers on your projects, Clarity Journal No. 66, page 11 http://clarity-international.net/journals/66clarityjournal.pdf
• Plain Language in Plain English, Chapter 8:Identify the purposes of the document, Clarity Journal, No.3, page 8, http://clarity-international.net/journals/63.pdf
• "The Real Goods on Plain Language", January 1997,Canadian Bar Association, BC and Alberta Branches, Proceedings of Conference
• "A Few Myths about Plain Language",LegalFocus  (Vol.1 No.15), a publication of the insurance industry.
• "Taking the Plunge", The Western Editor, April 1995, Editors Association of Canada
• "Plain language Saves Money, Hassles", Infocus, October, 1995, Business Forms Management Association
• "Is the form still blank? Maybe your client has difficulty reading", BarTalk, July/August 1993 Vol. 5, No. 5
• "Literacy and Legal Literacy: Did you realize they could be practice issues?", BarTalk, April 1996, Vo. 8. No. 2
• "Books, Books,Books: A shopping list for the legal writer", Legal Support Staff Newsletter, December 1993, Moore Publishing