People’s Choice — Worst 'Brainstrain' 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 — 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.
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.
By putting these confusing documents and websites under the spotlight, we hope that the organisations responsible will rewrite them in beautifully plain English.
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 — 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)
- 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