2010 WriteMark |
Friday 3 September 2010 |
New Zealand Plain English Awards |
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People’s Choice awards — entry requirements for Category 5
There are four awards in the People’s Choice category.
- Best Plain English Document
- Best Plain English Website
- ‘Brainstrain’ Document
- ‘Brainstrain’ Website
Members of the public are invited to nominate documents from any New Zealand-based organisation (other than their own workplace) for a People’s Choice award. We will keep the names of people who nominate documents in this category confidential.
As part of the judging process, entries for these awards are assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard.
Entries are now closed.
General entry requirements for People’s Choice awards
Remember the following requirements when nominating a document or website for a People’s Choice award.
- Entries should be:
- whole documents, rather than extracts
- no more than 10 pages.
- You may not nominate a document from your own workplace for any of the People’s Choice awards.
- Works of fiction and extracts from books will not be accepted.
- Documents or websites edited or proofread by Write Group Limited are not eligible to win a People’s Choice award.
- If you only have a hard copy of the document, complete the entry form and print it before submitting the form.
Best Plain English Document
This award honours the most outstanding example of a plain English document nominated by a member of the public.
Best Plain English Website
This award honours the most outstanding example of a plain English website 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.
The ideal entry for the ‘Brainstrain’ document award is a publicly available or widely used document that causes problems for many people. By putting these confusing documents under the spotlight, we hope that the organisations responsible will rewrite them in beautifully plain English.
‘Brainstrain’ Website
Like the 'Brainstrain' Document award, this award is for the website that most confuses and dumbfounds its target audience.
The ideal entry is a website that is widely used.
By putting confusing websites under the spotlight, we hope that the organisations responsible will transform them into shining examples of plain English.
See how a Brainstrain winner became a good news story!
Judging process for the 2008 Plain English Awards
Sponsors
We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support in 2010.
