Writing documents

This service includes writing all, or parts, of any type of business document.

Writing a document can seem straightforward at first, but it can end up being a frustrating process that takes more time than you expect.

Capire’s professional writing service will give your organisation a well-planned and high-quality first draft in much less time than you would need to develop it. Engaging us to write your documents also means you know you’ll get a clear, succinct, plain-language document that is tailored to your audience.

Our writing service is tailored to what your organisation needs, which can be repurposing material you already have, researching and writing new content, or a mixture of both.

We can write any type of business document. We regularly help our clients by writing these types of documents:

• Business cases
• Funding proposals
• Strategies and plans
• Reports
• Terms of reference
• Case studies
• Policies and guidelines

Sometimes structural editing reveals a document is missing some content it needs to achieve its purpose. We can also help you fill these gaps.

If your document contains data, we can advise you on which types of charts are most effective to use; help you identify the main messages to highlight in your charts; and create effective charts that you can insert into your documents. Find out more about our data visualisation service.

Capire specialises in writing funding proposals. Our lead writer, Helen Bradford, has worked as an assessor for New Zealand Government funding, and knows what’s important to funders. We write bids and proposals that will present your project in a way that funders can easily understand it and see how it meets their selection criteria.

Find out how Capire’s writing service for the New Zealand Aid Programme won the 2023 Best Plain Language Technical Communicator award.

Stylesheets

When we work on a writing or editing project, we always develop a style sheet. This is a list of style preferences that are used in the document. The style sheet draws from your organisation’s own style guide (if you have one) and is a useful tool that your organisation or team can continue to develop and use after the project.

You can create your own style sheet by downloading our free template.

Formatting

When we work on a writing project, we format your document using consistently applied MS Word styles for headings, paragraphs, tables, captions, references and so on.

 

Capire is a leading New Zealand writing consultancy for governments, NGOs and international development agencies. We help organisations transform their complexity into plain English. Find out more about how we can help your organisation or sign up for our newsletter to get more tips to improve your writing.