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It\u2019s not the winning that counts, but taking part, according to the WriteMark Best Plain English Technical Communicator for 2015, Meredith Evans.<\/p>\n
The Applications Analyst for Synlait Milk recently picked up the award at a ceremony celebrating the winners and finalists for the WriteMark Plain English Awards 2015 held at the Wellington City Gallery.<\/p>\n
It was the second time she\u2019s taken home the accolade (she also won the award in 2010). But while the sheen will never come off being recognised at a national level, Meredith says the greatest value from the experience is always the feedback you get from the judges.<\/p>\n
And you don\u2019t have to be a winner to receive that feedback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty stoked by the win because I wasn\u2019t expecting to win at all. But to be honest I would have been pretty gutted if I hadn\u2019t been shortlisted as a finalist,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you\u2019re shortlisted you get heaps of valuable feedback from the judges on your sample work that would be hard to find anywhere else. For that fact alone, I\u2019d say if you\u2019ve ever thought about it \u2013 just give it a crack. You never know what might happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meredith\u2019s role at Synlait sees her work across a variety of training and documentation projects, a fact that was reflected in the diversity of the samples she sent in as part of her entry into this year\u2019s awards.<\/p>\n
Her entrance portfolio included material for software procedures, instructions for using Synlait\u2019s new phone systems, and guidelines for saving files on Synlait\u2019s network, with the samples displaying single-sourcing for multiple platforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the judges liked the structuring, navigation, active voice – basically all the stuff we all know as technical communicators. But I think the variety of work helped as well, and I guess I\u2019m lucky in that respect.\u201d<\/p>\n
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