Chapter 14: Revising Your Drafts
Links

For an index to all the links available at this website, choose Links from the Book Resources menu.

The following links provide a sampling of available advice about revision in technical and business communication:

Audience Analysis (The OWL at Purdue) This comprehensive discussion of audience provides an effective overview for writers drafting or revising texts.

Design Checklists for Online Help (Michelle Corbin, Winwriters, Inc.) The page overview to this site makes the following observation about itself: "A series of design checklists based on the past 20 years of research are presented in this paper, which summarizes a journal article currently being considered for publication."

Guidelines for Revision (Georgia Tech) This site provides hierarchical-based guidelines for revision.

Revision in Business Writing (Dr. Judith M. Newman)This site proves a relatively detailed discussion, with examples, of sentence-level revising.

Revision in the Writing Process (Fran Lehr, Reading Rockets) This page presents a basic overview of revision addressing several questions about revision including "Can computers improve revision skills?"

The Nature of the Interchange Between Editors and Authors (Whiskey Creek Document Design)This article, originally published by STC, provides a discussion of the editor-author relationship.