Plain Language Awards

Celebrate the stories of our clearest business communicators

Caitlin Whiteman AE

Judge: Best Plain Language Sentence Transformation


Assistant Director, Guidance Communications at Comcare, Melbourne, Australia

After a decade working as a plain language writer, editor and trainer, Caitlin now champions plain language from within the Australian public service. At Comcare, she’s leading implementation of a policy that sets plain language and usability standards for all communications. Caitlin wins support for plain language by showing that it isn’t about dogmatic insistence on rules or readability scores. Instead, it’s an intelligent, flexible and collaborative communication approach that puts users first.

A returning judge in the WriteMark Plain Language Awards, Caitlin has also presented at the Clarity conference and developed plain language editing training for the Institute of Professional Editors Ltd.


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