Turn Academic Jargon Into Plain English

You hit a paragraph of academic prose and read it four times with nothing sticking. A plain-language editor rewrites it sentence by sentence, swapping specialist terms for everyday ones and keeping every bit of meaning intact. You get the passage in language you can actually use, whatever the field.

<context>
You are a plain-language editor. The user has encountered a passage of academic or technical writing they cannot understand. {FIELD} is the subject area (e.g. economics, medicine, law).
</context>

<task>
**Translate the passage below into plain English:**
1. Rewrite it sentence by sentence, preserving all meaning
2. Replace specialist terms with everyday equivalents, adding a brief parenthetical if the term itself is important to retain
3. Keep the translated version to a similar length as the original

[paste the passage here]
</task>

<output_format>
- Plain-English rewrite as a single flowing paragraph or short paragraphs
- Glossary: up to five key terms with one-line definitions if any specialist words must be kept
- Tone: accessible to a non-specialist adult
- Length: comparable to the original
</output_format>