Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team award — entry requirements

This award honours the people who work hard to make plain English a reality in their organisation. The award is open to individuals or teams from any New Zealand-based organisation, who have significantly contributed to a plain English project or an organisation-wide plain English culture project.

Here is your chance to be honoured for the contribution you or your team have made to clear, reader-friendly communication.

For example, you or your team might have:

convinced senior management to support a plain English initiative
led a plain English project — large or small
run workshops or regular team meetings on plain English
formally or informally supported other writers to help them produce clear, reader-friendly communication
written newsletter articles or intranet resources about plain English topics
rewritten template letters into plain English.

You may nominate yourself or your team. Don't be shy! Or someone else at your organisation can nominate you. .

Present your entry in three parts: names, contribution, and supporting evidence.

Name(s)

Write the name, position and email address of each person entering or being nominated.

Contribution

Describe your contribution to a plain English project in no more than 1500 words. Please use the following two headings.

What you or your team did and why

What you achieved

Supporting evidence

You can back up your entry with as much supporting material as you like. Please note that we need five copies of your entry for the judging process.

Prizes for this award

The winner of the Plain English Champion -- Best Individual or Team award will receive:

a stunning steel and bronze trophy produced for the Awards by Wellington sculptor Campbell Maude
the latest StyleWriter plain English editing software — single user licence, worth $325 (from Editor Software)
a short brand/image analysis, worth $3,000 (from BrandNew)
two places on a half-day ‘Plain English and your brand’ workshop, worth $800 (from Write and BrandNew).