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Re: Application for Council Tax discount

Under Part 2 the carer must be:providing care for a person who is entitled to one of the following state benefits: - a higher rate attendance allowance; - the highest rate of the care component of a disability living allowance; - the appropriately increased rate of disablement pension; - an in

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Re: Application for Council Tax discount

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    4. What Is "Plain English"? "For a document to be in plain English, the people who use it must be able to find the information they need easily and understand it the first time they read it." -- Janice Redish PhD, Harvard University

    5. The ABC of Effective Writing

    6. Brevity Brevity Brevity

    7. Brevity: Wordiness Traps Big Words Wordy Expressions Needless Doublings Smothered Verbs Needless Describers Needless "That" and "Which"

    8. Simpler Words Initiate

    9. Wordy expressions A majority of

    10. Needless Doublings

    11. Behead the Doubleheaders!

    12. Behead the Doubleheaders! It is our professional opinion that, given the conditions prevailing in the auto insurance market at this moment in time, a settlement in the sum of Ł3189 would appear to be fair and reasonable under the circumstances.

    13. Behead the Doubleheaders! It is our professional opinion that, Given the conditions prevailing in the auto insurance market at this moment in time, a settlement in the sum of Ł3189 would appear to be fair and reasonable under the circumstances.

    14. Behead the Doubleheaders! Given the conditions in the car insurance market, we think a settlement of Ł3189 is fair.

    15. Smothered Verbs Give consideration to

    16. Free Smothered Verbs! If you find that you have a requirement to make modifications to the course dates, you have my permission to do so.

    17. Free Smothered Verbs! If you need to, change the course dates.

    18. Brevity: Wordiness Traps Big Words Wordy Expressions Needless Doublings Smothered Verbs Needless Describers Needless "That" and "Which"

    19. Putting it all together

    20. Putting it all together

    21. Putting it all together

    22. Putting it all together

    25. Puffed-up Writing

    26. Puffed-up Writing

    27. Public Notice

    28. Find the Proverb Hidden in the Puffed-Up Language As with the sire, so it is with the scion. Avian vertebrates of similar plumage congregate concertedly. A suture emplaced in a timely fashion precludes the necessity for a nonet of such attachments. It is fruitless to become lachrymose because of scattered lacteal fluid.

    29. Find More Proverbs Hidden in the Puffed-Up Language Residents domiciled in accommodation of crystalline silicon dioxide construction should eschew engaging in the projection of dornicks. Articles which coruscate are not fashioned from aureate material, at least not necessarily. A rotatorily locomotive mineral fragment is consummately incapable of bryophytic accumulation.

    30. What is ‘spoken’ writing? Everyday words Personal pronouns Contractions And and But starts Final prepositions

    31. Simple language works Never fear big long words Big long words name little things. All big things have little names; Such as life and death, peace and war Or dawn, day, night, hope, love home. Learn to use little words in a big way. It is hard to do, but they say what you mean. When you don’t know what you mean, use big words. That often fools little people. Art Kudner to his newborn son

    32. Make Your ‘Bottom Line’ Your Top Line

    36. To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. Nearly all of them are far too long. This wastes time, while energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points. I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter. The aim should be reports which set out the main points in a series of short crisp paragraphs. If a report relies on detailed analysis of some complicated factors, or on statistics, these should be set out in an appendix…. Let us have an end of phrases such as these: ‘It is also of importance to bear in mind the following considerations’ or ‘Consideration should be given to the possibility of carrying into effect’. Most of these wooly phrases are mere padding, which can be left out altogether, or replaced by a single word. Let us not shrink from using the short, expressive phrase, even if it is conversational. Report drawn up on the lines I propose may at first seem rough…. But the saving in time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clearer thinking.

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