Do you think that writing Government documents in plain language is a difficult exercise? Have you ever considered if your sentences are easy to read? Are you afraid of converting your beautiful prose into short sentences?
If yes, the Readability presentation is for you!
You can learn about the following plain language and readability aspects.
Plain language
- Obstacles when using plain language
- Benefits of using plain language
- Techniques for writing in plain language
- Readability
- Readability definition
- Readability scores:
o using MS Word Readability Statistics to find the readability score for a Word document
o using Hemingway Editor to identify difficult sentences - Examples
- Workshop
We will use Hemingway Editor together to convert a piece of text to be more readable.
The presentation usually takes up to 1 hour, but I have booked the room for longer in case you have any questions.
DoE staff can write web and document content that can be easily read and understood by Tasmanian public regardless of their abilities, disabilities, level of education and time constraints.
Teaching
- Standard 7 – Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
Each presentation is being run in both the face to face and online modes.
Participants only need to attend 1 session – 9.30am – 11.00am
Face to Face Sessions – 7th Level of the Parliament Square Building (Parliament Square, 4 Salamanca Place, Hobart) or Online sessions (details will be sent to participants prior to the session)
- 4 February 2021
- 9 February 2021
- 23 March 2021
- 25 March 2021
- 27 April 2021
- 29 April 2021
- 25 May 2021
- 10 June 2021
- 22 July 2021