2009 PLAIN Conference

PLAIN's 2009 conference in Sydney, Australia was a resounding success, thanks mainly to the tireless efforts of Dr. Neil James and the Plain English Foundation. The conference featured 40 sessions and many of the world's greatest plain language practitioners. The following are some photos of conference highlights.
Dr. Neil James, Executive Director, Plan English Foundation, conference organizer.	Aboriginal welcome and smoking ceremony
The Honorable Nathan Rees, Premier of New South Wales giving opening address	Professor Bill Lutz, PLAIN President
Honorees: Robert Eagleson, Christine Mowat, Professor Peter Butt	In between sessions
Party time!	Dr. Neil James and Dr. Peta Spear, conference organizers

	For more photos of the 2009 conference, click here.
	For papers and presentations from the 2009 conference, click here.

 

From past conferences

	Welcome speech and associated PowerPoint presentation - by Christine Mowat, Acting Chair, PLAIN President, Wordsmith Associates, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2007
	Speech and presentation - by Ron Wahl, In Plain English, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2007
	Tools and Techniques for Working with Subject Matter Experts by Nad Rosenberg, TechWRITE, Inc., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2007
	Plain Language: Adding Up the Benefits, Washington, D.C., November 2005
	At The Heart of Communication, Toronto, Ontario, September 2002
	Plain Language in Progress, Houston, Texas, February 2000
	Language that works! Calgary, Alberta, September 1997
	More than Just Language, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1995

Conference presentations and reports are copyrighted by their authors and published on the PLAIN Web site with permission. Please contact the author directly for permission to reproduce any of this material.

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