Nomination criteria for Category 5: People’s Choice

There are two awards in this category — Best Plain English Document and ‘Brainstrain’ Document. Members of the public are invited to nominate documents from any New Zealand organisation (other than their own workplace) for a People’s Choice award. The names of people who nominate documents in the People's Choice award category will be kept confidential.

Best Plain English Document

This award honours the most outstanding example of a plain English document nominated by a member of the public.

‘Brainstrain’ Document

This award reveals, in good humour, the document most notable for confusing and dumbfounding its target audience with obscurity and gobbledygook.

Entry conditions

Entries should be:

whole documents, rather than extracts
no more than 10 pages.

You may not nominate a document from your own workplace for either of the People’s Choice awards.

Works of fiction and extracts from books will not be accepted.

As part of the judging process, entries for each award are assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard.

Judging process for the WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards 2007

Assessing against the WriteMark Plain English Standard

Sponsors

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