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Barzel R, Holt K. 2024. A way with words: Tips for writing easy-to-understand oral health materials. Washington, DC: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, 2 pp.

Annotation: This handout for health professionals provides tips on how to write oral health materials that are easy for people to understand. It includes ideas about words to use and not to use, tone, voice (active vs. passive), and layout. Effectively using headings and lists is also discussed, along with the best way to write sentences and paragraphs to make the text simple and clear. How to incorporate technical words, when necessary, is explained. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Communication, Health literacy, Linguistic competence:, Oral health, Oral health equity

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