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Assessing against the WriteMark Plain English Standard

Documents

Entries in the Best Plain English Document, Best Plain English Website, and People's Choice categories of the 2008 Plain English Awards will be assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard. The WriteMark Plain English Standard assesses a document’s:

  • structure
  • content 
  • language
  • grammar, proofreading, and style consistency
  • layout and overall presentation.

Websites

Ten pages of each website, including the Home page and several top-level pages, will be assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard for Websites.

The WriteMark Plain English Standard for Websites  assesses a website’s:

  • strategic purpose
  • credibility
  • structure
  • language
  • layout and overall presentation
  • usability
  • links.

The WriteMark Plain English Standard

The WriteMark Plain English Standard is used under licence from our sponsor WriteMark Limited.

 Judging process for the 2008 Plain English Awards

Judges for the 2008 Plain English Awards

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Sponsors

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support in 2010.

 

Write Limited

 BrandNew

 

PrintStopPlus

 

Editor Software

 

Plain English Foundation

 

Optimal Workshop

 

Contented

 

WriteMark Limited


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