2007 Awards winners and finalists
Congratulations to the following winners and finalists in the 2007 WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards.
Plain English Champion — Best Organisation
Winner: Castalia
Finalist: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Best Plain English Document — Public / NGO Sector
Winner: PHARMAC — Patient guide: Herceptin — for early breast cancer
Finalist: New Zealand Guidelines Group — Having suicidal thoughts?
Finalist: Hutt City Council — Now that you have your building consent
Best Plain English Document — Private Sector
Winner: IAG New Zealand Limited — Introducing your home policy
Finalist: A J Park — Guide to trade marks
Finalist: Hunter Group — VectorNet update — Animal Health Board
Best New Zealand Plain English Website
Winner: National Library of New Zealand — www.natlib.govt.nz
Finalist: New Plymouth District Council — www.newplymouthnz.com
Finalist: RaboPlus — www.raboplus.co.nz
People’s Choice — Best Plain English Document
Winner: ACC — Standing up to falls
Finalist: Privacy Commissioner — Good privacy is good business
Finalist: GN ReSound — Our sense of hearing
People’s Choice — ‘Brainstrain’ Document
Winner: New Zealand Qualifications Authority — Unit standard 9734: Management — developing and coordinating people
Finalist: Tournament Parking — Terms and conditions
Finalist: Ministry of Education — Over-arching strategy for dissemination and use of best evidence synthesis (BES) iterations