Chapter 14 & 15

Revising and editing your writing is very important in ensuring that your finished product is as free from errors as possible. The three parts of revising are listed in chapter 14.
1. Identify possible improvements you could make in your draft.
2. Deciding which of the possible improvements to make.
3. Making the selected changes.
When checking your work, you want to always check from as many different views as possible. What would your target audience feel in reading this, how about your employer, does it properly reflect the company standards and values. The chapter then shifts to reviewing work from both the writer's point of view as well as the reviewer's. The book gives two very useful tables that rank the importance level of types of communications as well as what revisions are more important to revise.

Chapter 15 was a very interesting chapter, especially since it applies very directly to the group project we have in this class. When writing something such as an instruction manual, you want to be sure that what you are writing is clear to the audience involved, in order to do this a testing session can be used. In a test session, a draft of you work is given to a audience, who then has to complete the task by following what you have written. The results from these tests can be used for tweaking and fine tuning your writing to make it more understandable and usable to your audience. Results are gathered not only from observing the test subjects during the process but also in interviews with the subjects after the test.