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2013 WRITEMARK NEW ZEALAND PLAIN ENGLISH AWARDS

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We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support in 2013.

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Kara Zech Thelen

Assistant Professor, Thomas M Cooley Law School, USA

 

Kara Zech Thelen teaches research and writing at Thomas M Cooley Law School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before teaching, she clerked for a US federal magistrate judge and practised employment and college and university law at a Detroit, Michigan-based international law firm.

Kara advocates plain language as the core of excellent legal writing. She was recently invited to present on innovative law-school teaching methods with three co-faculty members at the prestigious Institute of Law Teaching and Learning’s annual conference. She is a member of the Legal Writing Institute, Scribes – The American Society of Legal Writers, and Clarity International, an association promoting plain legal language.

Kara has served as a judge for Scribes’ law-review award competition and for the Center for Plain Language’s ClearMark and WonderMark competitions, recognising the best and worst in plain language in the private and public sectors.

Judges for the 2012 Awards

Judging process for the 2012 Awards