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ALC Plain Language Associates, LLC

It's hard to improve your writing. Our one-day class will use examples from your office to give your employees plain-language tools to improve their writing. We can design coaching sessions to help them practice plain language skills on your own materials.

Organizations spend thousands of dollars developing reports, pamphlets, and other products, but because of how they are written they often lack clarity or impact. With our experience writing material from reports to regulations, brochures to bylaws, we'll help you write clear, powerful products.

Critics of traditional legal writing--judges included--have called legalese "wordy, unclear, pompous, and dull." We can help. Our writing workshop teaches the 40 basic principles of effective legal writing. Our coaching, using your own materials, will sharpen your skills.

Plain language regulations improve compliance and save your agency time and money. For over 30 years, we've helped government write clear and readable rules. We'll help your experts and specialists write regulations that minimize program costs and maximize compliance.

We have experience designing and coding websites for plain language content.

Your web is your public face, but many websites are ineffective and too dense. Using research-based principles of web communication, we will edit your content to help your customers get your message. We can also create new content based on your materials.

Contact Info:

Annetta Cheek
annetta @ annettacheek.net
703 772 6785

Suggested Links:

PlainLanguage.gov