About us

Plain English Foundation is Australia’s clear communications expert. A leading provider of plain English writing services, we have worked with over 10,000 professionals nationwide.

Our business activities support our public program. We strive to improve the quality of public language in Australia through a range of events, sponsorships, media appearances and publications.

We showcase the expertise of our people with an integrated suite of excellent writing products:

• training, to bring you the best plain language teaching experience
• in-depth editing, to ensure your documents meet a high standard
• assessment and review, to evaluate your writing against best practice benchmarks
• certification, when your writing meets our Plain English Standard.

Our work transforms our clients’ writing to become:

• Precise—expressing exactly what each author intends.
• Clear—removing any potential ambiguity and misunderstanding.
• Readable—improving ease of comprehension, particularly for technical material.
• Efficient—reducing documents by up to 30% without losing content.
• Persuasive—explaining a situation to secure the agreement of readers.
• Usable—reducing error rates by ensuring documents are practically directed.

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