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New Zealand Plain English Awards |
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Assessing against the WriteMark Plain English Standard
Documents
Entries in the Best Plain English Document, Best Plain English Website, and People's Choice categories of the 2008 Plain English Awards will be assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard. The WriteMark Plain English Standard assesses a document’s:
- structure
- content
- language
- grammar, proofreading, and style consistency
- layout and overall presentation.
Websites
Ten pages of each website, including the Home page and several top-level pages, will be assessed against the WriteMark Plain English Standard for Websites.
The WriteMark Plain English Standard for Websites assesses a website’s:
- strategic purpose
- credibility
- structure
- language
- layout and overall presentation
- usability
- links.
The WriteMark Plain English Standard
The WriteMark Plain English Standard is used under licence from our sponsor WriteMark Limited.
Judging process for the 2008 Plain English Awards
