Plain-English editing and
writing-skills training:
helping you clarify your web and printed communications
We provide:
- accreditation of your public documents with the Clear English Standard
- high-quality writing-skills courses for your staff
- distance-learning courses to improve every individual's writing skills
- accreditation of your website with the Clear English Standard (Winning Website) logo, and
- rapid, affordable editing of your internal and external documents.
We work for all kinds of organizations – government departments, financial services companies, registered social landlords, regulators, ombudsmen, local authorities, pension schemes, hospital trusts, utilities, telecom companies and international law firms. They like what we offer – a business-class service delivered by published authors and editors at a reasonable cost.
The company is personally managed by Martin Cutts, author of ‘Lucid Law’ and the ‘Oxford Guide to Plain English’. Our editors and course presenters include Sarah Carr, Ruth Thornton, Christina Gleeson and Judy Brown.
Plain Language Commission is independent of the UK Government.
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- Drivers pay price as trade body backs Excel’s signs
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Jottings
‘Lay’ and ‘lie’ - Bad drink and bookless households cast a spell
- Weigh too heavy
- Proofreading blu’s
- Sum torque on heterographs
- ‘Refute’ denied its conventional meaning
- Remorseless writing style of unrepentant burglar
- Curse of blankety blank