Plain English Champion — Best Organisation award
There are two awards in the Plain English Champion category:
- Best Organisation
- Best Individual or Team.
Entry requirements
The award for Plain English Champion — Best Organisation is the premier award. This award is open to any New Zealand-based organisation that can show evidence of an active campaign to create an organisation-wide culture of plain English writing.
Present your entry in two parts: project description 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. Project description
Please describe your project in no more than 2500 words, using the three headings below. We have given you some examples of content, but you may include whatever information you think supports your entry.
Planning
Content could include:
- business case for the project
- project objectives
- plans to achieve management commitment
- detailed plain English project plan.
Activities and resources
Content could include:
- staff training
- documents redrafted into plain English
- internal and external publicity campaigns
- internal or external plain English standard
- style guide that supports plain English
- intranet materials
- publications
- online forums
- staff champions
- plain English editing software.
Results to date
Record successes, milestones achieved, and lessons learned, including:
- audits of plain English use
- solicited and unsolicited feedback from readers, staff, or clients
- before and after results
- other measurable results.
2. Supporting evidence
You can back up your project description with as much supporting evidence as you like. Remember that we need five copies of your entry for the judging process.
Prizes for this award
The winner of the Plain English Champion — Best Organisation award will receive plain English consultancy and editing services to the value of $10,000 from Write Limited. The prize is to be used on a specific plain English project designed to produce measurable results for the winning organisation (that is, savings in time or money, or both).
The winner will complete the project by 30 June 2013. They will then document the results in a project report by 31 July 2013. Please include with your entry a short description of the plain English project your organisation would undertake if it won this award. (Your idea for a project isn't part of the judging criteria.)
The winner will also 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