Archive for September, 2009
Why Do Clinical Research Reports Do A Poor Job of Communicating?
One of the McCulley/Cuppan training workshops I facilitate is titled Scientific Thinking & Writing. The workshop takes a broad look at the world of scientific writing in various disciplines. One of the more popular versions of this workshop is geared toward writing in the domain of clinical research.
At the start of this particular workshop I [...]
Just Exactly What Do You Mean By The Term “Document Review”
A useful starting point for considering review practices is to define what you mean by the term: review. Review is a catch-all term for the different types of document analysis that are commonly applied in the business setting. In our McCulley/Cuppan consulting practice, we identify four distinct forms of document analysis that are collectively referred [...]
Why Do Business-Critical Documents Fail?
Why do documents fail?
That’s a question we routinely ask in our McCulley/Cuppan consulting work. By failure, I mean a document that does not fulfill on the intended purpose as specified by the authors. Often the principal elements causing failure occur because not enough time went into the planning portion of the document development process and [...]