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Profile
Clear Language and Design improves your ability to communicate with your audience by using plain language and research-based principles for documment design. We specialize in usability assessment, substantive editing and rewriting, and clear language training. Recent clients include Sun Life Financial, Health Canada, the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario, and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Sally McBeth, Manager of Clear Language and Design, is the author of Service
Canada’s guide to clear language for correspondence writers. She is co-author of the Clarity Kit, a guide to
creating a clear- language organizational culture. She contributed to Plain Language in Plain English, a
comprehensive guide to plain language best practices. Sally has served as guest
editor of Clarity, an international
journal for legal writers.
Editorial Skills
- Copy editing
- Developmental or project editing
- Online editing
- Plain language
- Proofreading
- Research and fact-checking
- Rewriting
- Structural and substantive editing
- Stylistic editing
- Writing
- Consulting and manuscript evaluation
- On-screen editing
- Referencing
Media / Genres
- Bibliographies
- Booklets
- Briefs précis and executive summaries
- Business materials general
- Brochures
- Correspondence
- Curriculum guidelines
- Educational materials general
- Government materials general
- Labels and packaging
- Manuals and how-to books
- Newsletters
- Periodicals general
- Policies and procedures
- Public relations materials
- Reference materials general
- Reports annual
- Style guides
- Teachers
- Tests and assessment materials
- Websites
Subjects
- Communications
- Finance and taxation
- Government
- Government federal
- Government municipal
- Government provincial
- Health
- Health and medicine general
- Health care
- Indigenous
- Insurance
- Law
- Medicine
- Pharmaceuticals
- Psychology and mental health
- Social sciences
Working Languages
- English
Disclaimer
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