From Black codes to recodification
Subtitle: removing the veil from regulatory writing
By: Miriam Williams.
Series: Baywood's technical communications series
Publisher: Baywood Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amityville, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780895033765
Subjects: Technical writing; Communication of technical information; African Americans -- Texas -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : race, regulations, and trust; title: Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust; title: Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights; title: Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust; title: Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both?; title: An invention heuristic for regulatory writing.