1. Communicating with people, not lawyers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Information, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- Circa 1973
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: D10748
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., Emphasis on writing public information that is readable and understandable. Cites an example of a proposed news release from the deputy of one USDA agency. It contained a 68-word sentence found not understandable.