Federal agencies served: Several--they have been assigned a BPA for training with NIH #263-54617, and they are on the GSA Schedule GSA-35F-0585K Rep ID = RFRA.

Note: Save 9% (using Government PO) to 14% (using Government Credit Card) off the catalogue price.

EEI Communications provides comprehensive and customized solutions to meet their client’s needs and budgets. 

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Federal agencies served:  Department of Veterans Affairs, Internal Revenue Service, and National Partnership for Reinventing Government

Kleimann Communications is a woman-owned, small business with access to the GSA Schedule as a subcontractor.  We synthesize the best plain language and information design techniques with their clients’ imagination and objectives.  We analyze, write, and design documents and forms with the reader as a focus.  To extend their work, we have developed customized training for staff and managers, including usable regulations and correspondence.  In addition, our organization can design training courses to address the specific needs of an organization.

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Federal agencies served: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Metropolitan Area Airports Authority; Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Health and Human Services

Language at Work is a non-profit firm that provides specialized, on the job training workshops in: Plain Language Guidelines and Agency Writing Standards; Writing in Plain Language (tailored for writers of correspondence, regulations, or technical material); and revising and editing. They can also develop examples that demonstrate the use of Plain Language and can serve as templates. E-mail: lawing@erols.com

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Federal agencies served: National Archives and Environmental Protection Agency

Lauchman Group is a small business that specializes in helping professionals improve their writing. They present Plain Language training nationwide. They also consult with organizations to create simpler models of complex documents.

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Federal agencies served: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Dr. Lutz is the author or co-author of fifteen books and over two dozen articles on language, writing, and communication. He has served as a consultant on plain language for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and worked on the SEC Plain Language Handbook. He has re-written mutual fund prospectuses and other financial documents into plain language. He conducts half- or full-day workshops on Plain Language.

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Federal Agencies served: Department of State, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Justice

Management Concepts offers a course entitled Plain Language: Writing for Success that covers business, technical, and report writing. Training is provided at their training facility in D.C. Courses can also be tailored to the client's particular needs and taught at the client's location. The instruction format includes in-class writing, instructor presentation, class discussion, and personal guidance from the instructor. Students are encouraged to bring an original writing sample.

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Federal agencies served: Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Partnership for Reinventing Government.

The Murawski Group offers classes in business writing, regulatory writing, and presentation skills. We can tailor a class to meet the needs of your group. Previous projects include making Federal regulations easier to write and read and writing the Federal Register's guidelines for plain language.

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Federal agencies served: General Accounting Office, Department of the Treasury, Federal Emergency Management Agency, NIH Office of Management Assessment.

Quality Communications trains business and technical writers to produce memos, letters, reports, and regulations efficiently and accurately, while maintaining legal sufficiency and readability. Training emphasizes the plain language approach. Projects include document design, staff and executive writing training, and techniques for managing other people's writing.

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Federal agencies served: Several, including the National Cancer Institute, and currently working with the State of Washington

Dr. Redish offers several courses, including: Developing Clear and Usable Regulations (2 days); Reviewing Clear and Usable Regulations (½ day for managers ); and training writers of manuals, forms, policies and procedures, and proposals. She also helps analyze problems in documents, including working with users to understand how and why they use the documents. She can help reorganize and rewrite documents.

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Federal agencies served: None, but worked with the University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Department of Natural Resources and Environment

Dr. Weinbaum's services include writer, editor, scholar, and teacher. During her experience as an editor at the University of Illinois for the past eight years, she edited lengthy, often technical publications in the social science, humanities, natural science, agribusiness, and consumer science fields. Additionally, she wrote a book of literary criticism that was published by the University of Texas press. The field of literary criticism can be seen as the interpretation of literary texts in plain English.

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Federal agencies served: National Institutes of Health

Put the joy back in writing! Embrace the art of plain language communication. Our training team delivers a course called 7 Steps to Better Writing: a unique system already in use by Federal health and science professionals to improve all of their work-related writing tasks. Lively, interactive exercises teach participants to apply the steps on the spot to improve a piece of agency writing. Students learn from the instructors and from each other in an informal, collegial atmosphere conducive to learning. They also walk away with an easy-to-use handbook and other reference materials to guide them in tackling their next writing assignment.

Note: Special Blanket Purchase Agreement pricing for all NIH agencies.

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Federal agencies served: Social Security Administration, Food and Drug Administration

Trainers at Words @ Work use previously prepared documents or writing samples of class participants in order to evaluate and address the specific needs of each student.

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