Peer Review Process/Best Practices?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

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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