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Editorial review

For a quotation, please contact us. A Plain English Foundation Editorial review helps you to identify areas that you can target to create a more efficient, reader-friendly and attractive document. A review is ideal for more comprehensive documents like an annual report, or a set of fact sheets. We give you a report with a detailed action list that identifies practical ways to improve a document. This is our standard document assessment service and it is ideal for authors and editors seeking guidance on best plain language style. Our Editorial review is designed to help you to set, or meet, your organisation's plain language standards.		Padding with conjunctions	Meaning
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Writing at Work

Our expert plain language editors assess 4 elements in your document to see how effectively you convey your messages. These are:

• structure
• expression
• design
• style.

Set your sights on Silver

When your document meets our Standard, it earns Plain English Foundation Silver certification.

Silver certification endorses your document as meeting a very high plain language standard. It also gives it a quality assurance tag that you can use to promote your own, and your organisation's commitment to plain English writing.

Client story

Our client asked us to do an editorial assessment of its style guide to provide evidence of the need to review this document. We identified content gaps, diagnosed expression problems and identified where the document used inconsistent styles. As a result of our Editorial review, the client secured approval to rewrite the document and resolved internal debates on content issues. We then helped the client with in-depth editing and rolled out Getting to the point training to promote the guide to staff.

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