Simplifying complex business communications
Established in 1991, Syntax designs and creates plain English business documents, including marketing, financial, legal and technical. We are expert in simplifying and rationalising system-generated templates for large-volume correspondence.
Managing director and founder, Ron Ringer, is the author of numerous books including educational textbooks and commissioned histories. He also works with academics at leading universities to prepare grant submissions, as well as academic articles for publication.
Simplifying complexity
Whether your audience is the customer, stakeholder, investor, or regulatory authorities
– we provide a better brand experience.
An objective, external
assessment
We bring an objective, external assessment to the task of improving complex documentation.
Clear, concise
and effective
We create clear, concise and effective customer communications and technical documentation.
Writing and design
We create plain language, easy-to-use sales and marketing documents that fulfil all legal and compliance requirements.
A multi-disciplinary
approach
We apply a multi-disciplinary approach, using our skills as writers and publishing consultants to form a project team with in-house stakeholders, including legal, compliance, IT, marketing and product owners.
Cost efficiencies and business process improvements
We create cost efficiencies and business process improvement through the redesign and redrafting of complex documentation.
Portfolio
We’ve worked on public and private sector projects that offer the full range of creative, copywriting and
document design and simplification services.
Work with us
When required, Ron Ringer partners with senior and experienced writers to provide the
scale of service you require.
Our clients
Creating a better customer experience through plain language documents.
Financial Services
Allianz – MMI Insurance Limited
Australian Casualty & Life Limited
AMP Society
ANZ Banking Group
Bankers Trust Financial Group
Bluestone Mortgages
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
ING DIRECT
INPRO Australia Pty Ltd
FAI Life Limited
GIO
Johnson Taylor Limited – Stockbrokers
Lumley Insurance
Mercantile Mutual Life Limited
MLC Limited
National Australia Bank
Perpetual Financial Services
Principal Financial Group
QBE Insurance
Richard Oliver International
St George Bank
Westpac
Willis Corroon
IT, Technology, Security
ADT Security – part of Tyco International
Computer Power Group
Comet Satellite and Cable
Grubits & Associates – Fire Safety Engineers
Zodiac Groupe International
Lancomm Pty Ltd
SIS Security
Veda Advantage
Building and Construction
Austral Bricks
Brickworks Limited
APM Services Pty Ltd
KJB Engineering Pty Ltd
Technical Architects Pty Ltd
Resources
Wesfarmers
Elgas Limited
Retail
Payless Carpets
Woolworths Limited
Woolworths Liquor Group
Health & Medical
Eyelaser Australia
HCF
Medibank Private
Education & Training
Australian Graduate School of Management
Australian Council of Business Deans
The Australian Museum
University of Sydney – School of Business, Faculty of Education
DTEC – NSW Department of Training and Education Co-ordination
TAFE NSW
UTS – Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology
Industry Groups
Australian Supermarkets Institute
ALPGA – Australian Liquid Petroleum Gas Association
Australian Business Limited
Advertising, Marketing, Entertainment
Billy Blue Group
Glasshouse
Gotham City Press
Southern Star Entertainment
Three Six Zero Partnership
Publishing & Legal
CCH Australia
LawCover
Maxwell Macmillan Publishing Australia
Pascal Press
Pergamon Press
Macmillan Education
Management Consultancies
Prospect Consulting
Ernst & Young
Government
NSW Department of Housing
Austrade
Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
Community
The Wayside Chapel
St Jude’s Church, Randwick
About Us
Ron Ringer
Managing Director of Syntax
Ron Ringer studied at Nottingham University and graduated with a degree in economic and social
history in 1974.
He completed a professional teaching qualification at Liverpool University in 1975 and migrated to Australia in 1979. He gained a Masters degree in History from UNSW in 1991.
Ron is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, Royal Australian Historical Society and the Professional Historians Association (NSW).
Ron Ringer has been commissioned by many of Australia’s leading financial service providers, academic institutions and corporations to provide strategic communications services on large documentation and publishing projects. He is also an independent historian and the author of nine HSC textbooks for publishers, including Pergamon Press, Maxwell Macmillan, Pascal Press and Macmillan Education Australia.
Publications by Ron Ringer
Summoned by Bells: A history of St Jude’s Randwick, 1855-2015 (2016)
Materiality: brick and block in contemporary Australian architecture (2015)
Along the Wayside: a short history of the Wayside Chapel (2014)
Spirit of SMEC: Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (2012)
The Brickmasters, 1788-2008 (2008)
A History of Elgas (2004)
Contact Us
Syntax Writing Services Pty Ltd
ACN 056 868 136
Address
Studio 10, Level 3, 35 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
telephone
+61. 2. 9560 8130
mobile
0412 560 151
