Re: Peer Review Process/Best Practices?

["Raj Machhan" <raj -dot- machhan -at- gmail -dot- com>]

For a end user document, a peer review would essentially involve getting
your fellow writers to use the application as per the steps given in the
document. Take care to select only those writers who have never worked on
the application before.

Raj

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> Jill Mohan wondered: <<Is there anybody out there using a slightly
> formalized process for getting documents reviewed prior to delivery?
> If you are, can you share some best practices?>>
>
> Not since I went freelance, but beforehand we had a rigorous review
> process and it worked really well. There are many related articles on
> my Web site (http://www.geoff-hart.com/resources/bibliography.html)
> based on real-world experience, particularly those related to getting
> reviewers to do a good review, but a good place to start would be
> "Designing an effective review process" (http://www.geoff-hart.com/
> resources/2005/reviews.htm).
>
> If you'll be attending WritersUA in a couple weeks, stop in at my
> presentations, one with Char James-Tanny on editing help systems
> (http://www.writersua.com/ohc/track5.htm#session40) and another by
> myself on workflow re-engineering (http://www.writersua.com/ohc/
> track5.htm#session47). The latter presentation is particularly
> relevant, and I'm hoping to write it up formally for STC or another
> venue at some point.
>
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