From Black Codes to Recodification : Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER I. Introduction: Race, Regulations, and Trust -- Traditional Styles of Regulatory Writing -- Contemporary Arguments for Plain English Regulations -- Organization of Book -- CHAPTER II. Case Study I-Texas Black Codes of 1866: Identifying Discourse Markers of Trust -- Identifying Discourse Markers of Trust -- Discourse Analysis of Texas Black Codes -- Findings of Discourse Analysis -- CHAPTER III. Texas Laws and Tacit Laws: Redefining Black Labor from "The Nadir" to Civil Rights -- Redefining Apprenticeship and Contract Labor -- Rationale for Contemporary Studies -- CHAPTER IV. Case Study II-Texas Agencies: The Challenge of Evoking Trust -- Contextual Inquiry Meeting at State Agency -- Artifacts Collected during Contextual Inquiry Study -- Process Meeting with Group of Policy Writers -- Analysis of Regulatory Writing Tasks -- CHAPTER V. Case Study III-Contemporary Black Business Owners: Legalese, Plain English, or Both? -- The Focus Group in Context -- CHAPTER VI. An Invention Heuristic for Regulatory Writing -- Implications of Contextual Inquiry and Focus Group Studies -- What Information Do New Policy Writers Need to Know? -- What Style Meets the Needs of the Government Agency and the Public? -- A Rulemaking Heuristic to Evoke Trust in Distrustful Audiences -- Considerations for the Future of Regulatory Writing -- APPENDICES -- Appendix I: Texas Black Codes in Legalese and Plain English -- Appendix II: Rhetorical Analysis of Texas Black Codes in Legalese and Plain English -- Appendix III: Contextual Inquiry Transcript -- Appendix IV: The Focus Group Meeting -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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