The Plain Language Association INternational (PLAIN): Your Portal to Clear Writing


	Plain Language Association InterNational

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PLAIN's 20th Anniversary Conference
October 10 - 13, 2013
Vancouver, Canada

Plain language is an international language that everyone in your audience can easily understand. Clear writing in plain language saves time, money, and lives.

In whatever country you call home, you need plain language whether you're:

	Preparing a legal brief
	Writing a procedure
	Running a business
	Designing a brochure
	Publishing a newsletter
	Managing a department
	Maintaining a web site
	Training workers

Our members include consultants, company editors, freelance writers, attorneys, and educators from around the world. We work for small businesses, government agencies, law firms, health-care providers, universities, and our clients.

This site provides free plain-language articles, writing tutorials, web links, news, information about our conferences, networking opportunities, membership listings, and professional support.

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	Read Strengthening plain language: public benefit and professional practice, recently published in the current issue of Clarity. This is the long-awaited options paper, which proposes options and strategies for the plain language profession. This paper represents the combined efforts of PLAIN, Clarity and the Center for Plain Language. Over the past four years, members of these organizations worked diligently, under the guidance of Dr. Neil James, to prepare this roadmap to the future.
	Survey results about the options paper described above. Recently PLAIN conducted a member survey regarding the Strenthening plain language options paper. Here are the results.
	Good news from Finland - The newly appointed government promised to promote plain language.