Certification
Certification
Plain English Foundation is the only Australian provider with a formal writing evaluation system that objectively assesses how your documents compare with best practice. We offer 3 levels of document evaluation.
| Suits | shorter documents | longer documents | a collection of an organisation's writing |
| Such as | a fact sheet or board paper | an annual report or guide | writing across a branch, agency or business |
| We do | a quick qualitative review | a qualitative review | a quantitative and qualitative review |
| You get | a summary with a checklist | a report and action list | a full report, examples and recommendations |
Where documents meet our plain English benchmarks, they receive Plain English Foundation certification. Our work is based on:
- the principles of effective communication in Writing at Work
- the Plain English Foundation Standard
- key style practices in the Australian Style manual for authors, editors and printers
- spelling, hyphenation and usage in the Macquarie Dictionary.