The Clear Writing Lab
Fraser BuffiniA monthly newsletter from the team with our thoughts and ideas about clear writing and plain language
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Being grammatically correct
A recent leader in the Times newspaper got me thinking the other day. It was a piece about the new (at the time of writing) British PM, Rishi Sunak, where the editor argued that the PM didn't need to be a user of the NHS in order to underst...
Don't get tangled in the false safety net of comprehensiveness.
You know those monstrous restaurant menus that try to please everyone by offering a bit of everything? The food is usually—being generous here—forgettable.
The hapless owners want to attract the widest audience possible, thinking it will b...
The Clear Writing Lab December Newsletter: 🎄Christmas edition
🪄Clear Writing Tip of the Month: Talk to your reader directly.
Use ‘we’ and ‘you’ instead of things like ‘the organisation’ or ‘the client’ in your public-facing documents.
Your reader will find it easier to understand what they’re s...
The Clear Writing Lab's November newsletter
🪄Clear Writing Tip of the Month: Use verbs instead of nouns.
When people use a word that is not a noun as a noun, linguists call this ‘nominalisation’.
Observant readers will chuckle at the irony that nominalisation is actually a ver...
Webinar: Bite-sized clear writing
We mentioned in our last newsletter that we’d be running a free monthly webinar. Well, here we are. It’s ready to go. This Friday, we will throw all our best thinking at you in two, ten-minute presentations. You’ll get the chance to ask que...
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