Online courses available

If you want to learn the basics of writing plain English at your own pace, one of our online courses may be suitable for you. There are six different courses for you to choose from.

The links below explain what the courses are about, as well as how to sign up for them. If you have been sent a username and password for a course, you should use the Login to online courses section on our home page.

The following courses take between 12 and 15 hours and cost £100 plus VAT.

Plain English letters

Plain English reports

Plain English grammarcheck

Plain English writing for websites

The following courses take between two and five hours to complete and cost £20 plus VAT.

Plain English business writing

Our Plain English design module (which is meant to complement other longer courses, usually the letters or reports courses).