AI can turn a two-line prompt into a two-page document in seconds. But longer isn’t clearer. Extra length can bury your key message or make a simple point sound complicated. That’s why plain English writing matters more now, not less. If you know what clear writing looks like, you can spot when AI has drifted…
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A Good Plain English Edit for A Well-known University
As with a lot of text that comes to APM for a ‘clean’, template copy is usually a Frankensteinian concoction. The presenting stumble of limbs is often a mess of thumbs and toes. Disparate voices and styles siloed over years, without broader consideration. Each addition another brick in the wall of obfuscation – building silently like…
Our plain English training is a must for organisations who want their staff to write in plain English. For us, something can be said to be in plain English if its wording, structure and design are so clear that the target audience can quickly and easily understand and use it. For example: Before: In accordance with…
