Archive for April, 2009
Improving the Practice of Document Review
Document reviews should be used as a tool to build quality into research and technical reports. In most handbooks for professional writers, review is recommended for clear and simple reasons: it is intended to identify problems and suggest improvements that enable an organization to produce documents that accomplish its goals and meet readers’ needs. It [...]
Are we navel gazing, or are these navel oranges?
Science is is social and collaborative and writing is a central activity.
Document Design Actions to Support On-Screen Reading of Documents
Electronic documents enable the regulatory reader, at agencies like the FDA, to gain access to information quickly and easily. Electronic documents, that is, documents designed to be read on the screen of a computer monitor versus on paper, can be quite beneficial to the submission and review process. However, it is important to design these [...]