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2016 WRITEMARK NEW ZEALAND PLAIN ENGLISH AWARDS

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We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support in 2015.

     


  • Wright Family Foundation

People’s Choice — Worst 'Brainstrain' Communication award

The People’s Choice — Worst 'Brainstrain' Communication award reveals, in good humour, the document or website most notable for confusing and dumbfounding its target audience with obscurity and gobbledygook.

By putting these confusing documents and web pages under the spotlight, we hope that the organisations responsible will rewrite them in beautifully plain English.

Entry form

What you need to know

The ideal entry for the Worst ‘Brainstrain’ Communication award is a publicly available or widely used document or website that causes problems for many people.

Documents or web pages nominated in the WriteMark Plain English Awards People’s Choice category must:

  • be whole documents or web pages, not extracts
  • be in current use for business purposes
  • be owned by an organisation that operates in New Zealand
  • not be owned by the organisation you work for
  • not be a book, or an extract of a book.

You and we (the Trust) agree to keep your details confidential.

Prizes for this award

Thanks to your nomination, the organisation named as the winner of the People's Choice — Worst ‘Brainstrain’ Communication award will receive:

  • the famous ‘Brainstrain’ rubbish bin filled with sour worms
  • 2 hours free consultancy from Write Limited to start transforming the document or website into plain English 
  • the latest StyleWriter plain English editing software — single-user licence (from Editor Software UK)
  • a place on any of Write Limited’s 1-day public workshops.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Entry form

People’s Choice — Best Plain English Communication award

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