Plain English Champion
— Best Individual or Team award
There are two awards in the Plain English Champion category:
- Best Organisation
- Best Individual or Team.
Entry requirements
The Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team award honours the people who work hard to make plain English a reality in their organisation. The award is open to individuals or teams from any New Zealand-based organisation, who have significantly contributed to a plain English project or an organisation-wide plain English culture project.
Here is your chance to be honoured for the contribution you or your team have made to clear, reader-friendly communication.
For example, you or your team might have:
- convinced senior management to support a plain English initiative
- led a plain English project — large or small
- run workshops or regular team meetings on plain English
- formally or informally supported other writers to help them produce clear, reader-friendly communication
- written newsletter articles or intranet resources about plain English topics
- rewritten template letters into plain English.
You may nominate yourself or your team. Don't be shy! Or someone else at your organisation can nominate you.
Present your entry in three parts: names, contribution, and supporting evidence.
Submit your entry online with your completed entry form. If you cannot send an electronic copy of your entry, please send five hard copies so that these can be distributed to the judges.
1. Name(s)
Write the name, position and email address of each person, or the team name, being entered or nominated.
2. Contribution
Describe your contribution to a plain English project in no more than 1500 words. Please use the following two headings.
What you or your team did and why
What you achieved
3. Supporting evidence
You can back up your entry with as much supporting material as you like. Please note that we need five copies of your entry for the judging process.
Prizes for this award
The winner of the Plain English Champion -- Best Individual or Team award will receive:
- a stunning steel and bronze trophy produced for the Awards by Wellington sculptor Campbell Maud
- the latest StyleWriter plain English editing software — single-user licence (from Editor Software)
- a place on any of Write Limited's 1-day public workshops.
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.
Judging process for the 2012 Plain English Awards