Plain English in ten little words

• May — don’t confer entitlements that the parties had in any case. Don’t say a thing more than is necessary. Don’t overcommunicate. Less is more.
• By — passive tense. Write in the active, with energy, and in a way that clearly assigns and accepts responsibility
• Of — nominalisation, adjectivisation
• Shall — fusty old language
• And/or — nervous laungage
• verb — complicated sentence constructions (because the simple verb (give, do, be, make, have) is usually accompanied by a noun that could itself have been a verb
• Without limitation — parentheticals that by definition do not add anything.
• Leverage — jargon that is designed to make the writer look wise, and not the reader enlightened.
• Doubt — writing that fails to avoid doubt in the first place.
• Judge — question motivation for writing this way.