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Style Council Conferences
Sydney 2004
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A Style Council conference, featuring the theme "Public and Professional discourse", was held in Sydney, 9-11 July 2004 at the State Library of New South Wales. It is the thirteenth in a regular series concerned with professional uses of Australian English to be conducted by the Macquarie Dictionary Research Centre and Style Council Centre.
The keynote speaker was Dr Neil James of the newly launched Plain English Foundation, who addressed a range of issues raised by Don Watson's book on the decay of public language. Other speakers presented on a range of topics including:
- The language of government, politics and bureaucracy
- Professional communication (including legal, medical, scientific)
- Writing within academia (and the editing of PhDs)
- Business and corporate writing
- Plain English and its application
A report on the conference, by Rosemary Noble is available here.
Some of the papers from the conference are now available online.
PAM PETERS
Convener, Style Council
email: adam.smith@ling.mq.edu.au