Using editing tools to improve your words

Dawn

Try Dawn, pop pop studio's plain English checker (opens in new tab)

You can paste text from your Local Offer straight in and see what Dawn flags. It does not give you a reading grade, for the reasons in the last lesson. Instead it gives you a set of specific points to look at, one category at a time.

Here's what a chunk of text from an EHC plan page looks like in Dawn:

Dawn groups what it finds into a few categories:

• structure and front-loading
• words your readers may not know
• long sentences
• passive voice, hedging and wordy phrases
• inclusive language
• house style

We'll look at some of these in the next few lessons.