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Councils ignore plain English guidelines
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- Created on Friday, 09 September 2016 15:53
You may recall recent Government guidelines that made plain English ‘mandatory for all of Gov.UK’. Well, it seems that ‘mandatory’ means different things to different councils.
A recent independent report looked closely at up to 100 pages on 191 local authority websites. The findings suggest that 82% of the information checked is ‘confusing readers by failing to use plain English’.
More beauty product nonsense
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- Created on Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:06
Have you ever bought a skin-care product after/despite hearing some impressive-sounding gobbledygook? The beauty product industry has seemingly always used hefty doses of waffle when marketing its creams, oils and ‘exfoliating’ gels.
But how many of the claims made about said products bear scrutiny? Unsurprisingly, very few.
2017 open courses
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- Created on Friday, 29 July 2016 15:30
- Plain English course 21 September 2017, London
Last few places remaining on this course. Book now to get £50 off each place. Further discounts available to corporate members.
- Report writing course 26 September, London
This course is only run twice a year and we have only a few places remaining.
For these offers, call Terri Schabel on: 01663 744409 for more details or email her at terri.schabel@plainenglish.co.uk
We voted 'Leave' – what now?
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- Created on Friday, 24 June 2016 12:28
Web deceit gets trickier
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- Created on Monday, 13 June 2016 10:58
We’ve already highlighted some of the dodgy techniques websites use to con customers.
Shamefully, not only have many websites continued to use them (and, in some cases, pass them off as perfectly OK), they’ve started to use even sneakier programs.
