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Posted March 29, 2024 The short answer: your organization should rewrite its documents as many times as needed to produce successful output. But this short answer belies a lot of complexity. How do you know when the output is “successful,” for example? How do you know if your rewriting processes are working well (keeping rewrites to a minimum) or if problems in the rewriting process itself are preventing...
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Posted March 25, 2024 In the process of creating powerful and impactful written content, the review and revision process plays a pivotal role. “More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting,” author John Irving has said. So it’s no wonder that most business writing goes through a careful review and revision process to ensure the document can meet its intended objectives,...
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Posted May 9, 2023 What do you do when the written materials produced by your team aren’t up to par? Every boss has a different approach to this situation, but most tend to default to one of two positions: Fix the writing themselves. Send it back for correction. The first option can be very tempting because it often seems faster and easier and the second isn’t necessarily guaranteed to produce...
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Posted April 4, 2023 What do you do when the written materials produced by your team aren’t up to par? Every manager has a different approach to this situation, but most tend to default to one of two positions: Fix the writing themselves. Send it back for correction. The first option can be very tempting because it often seems faster and easier, and the second option isn’t necessarily guaranteed...
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Posted November 12, 2019 Revisions, editing, and review are critical to producing successful written documents, but the process can easily turn wasteful, unhelpful, and unproductive. An effective review process requires a careful balancing act that recognizes the importance of editing (separate from writing) without inflating the process into a bloated mess. So, how can organizations make their reviewing and editing...
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