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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Posted June 11, 2019
Revision can be one of the most important phases of writing, but executed poorly, it can take as much or more time to revise as to create the original draft. How can your organization reduce the amount of time spent revising and still produce strong written documents?
Plan!
When writers start drafting without understanding what they’re trying to communicate, or how they need to communicate...
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Writer Anne Lamott once said of her writing friends: "Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much." The truth is, all of us can benefit from giving our writing a second (or third, or fourth) pass. But where do you start when you might not even know the difference between editing and proofreading? And what about revisions?
Here's a quick...
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