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We are currently revising content on plainlanguage.gov, including the federal guidelines, training materials, and other online resources. We’ve temporarily paused accepting training requests until after this update is complete. We hope to resume training later in the fall 2023.

Create your own class

PLAIN offers a variety of introductory classes on plain language. You may use these materials as the basis of your own class.

Half-day presentations

Exercises and handouts

We use the same set of exercises for each of these classes, but add an extra page for the web-centric classes:

We also have a slightly different set of exercises and answers (DOC) that you can use with our slides.

Here’s a generic class evaluation form (PDF).

Other presentations

These presentations last between 30 and 60 minutes. They are brief overviews about plain language but don’t offer any in-depth instruction on how to communicate plainly. The first 2 are targeted toward managers. The third is targeted toward anyone creating or redesigning a website.