Resources
Welcome to the Goldfinch resources page, where you’ll find a series of guides that are laden with writing tips for business and government writers. We’ll have the guides up in HTML soon too – our page is just going through a quick refresh.
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Plain English
Inside our fanciful little field guide, you’ll find 23 tips for using plain English PLUS a handy checklist for your writing desk.
We can’t promise you’ll learn much about birds. But we’ll at least introduce you to 6 of our favourites.
A Field Guide to the Flowers of Legal Writing
For the second instalment of our Field Guide series, we’re putting flowers under the microscope – some classics and some lesser known species.
But the real focus is legal writing. Let’s find out how we can make documents like contracts, advices, judgments and wills clearer and more engaging for everyday readers.
Rainbow Connections: 7 ways to make our readers’ dreams come true
Inspired by one of the great wonders of the natural world – and the world’s most famous frog – this guide is jam-packed with writing tips.
If that’s not quite enough for you, it also comes with its very own digital mixtape … a YouTube playlist of rainbow-related songs.