People’s Choice — Best Plain English Communication award
There are two awards in the People’s Choice category:
- Best Plain English Communication
- Worst 'Brainstrain' Communication.
We invite members of the public to nominate documents or websites from any New Zealand-based organisation, other than their own workplace, for a People’s Choice award.
(The names and contact details of people who enter documents in this category will remain strictly confidential.)
Entry requirements
The People’s Choice — Best Plain English Communication award honours the most outstanding example of a plain English document or website nominated by a member of the public.
Entries should be:
- whole documents, rather than extracts
- no more than 10 pages
- documents in current use.
Works of fiction and extracts from books will not be accepted.
Documents or websites edited or proofread by Write Limited are not eligible to win a People’s Choice award.
Prizes for this award
Thanks to your nomination the organisation named as the winner of the People’s Choice — Best Plain English Communication award will 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