Sara Vincent

Sara Vincent is a GOV.UK content designer.

Sentence length: why 25 words is our limit

Sara Vincent, 4 August 2014 - Best practice

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We recently blogged about our checklist for reviewing content and got a lot of questions about sentence length.

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