Angela J. Maniak
The leading expert in helping auditors and accountants write clear and convincing audit reports.
How to Review Somebody Else's Writing
A Workshop Offered by Angela J. Maniak
What You Gain from the Workshop
Managers often act as editors of their work team's writing, and they frequently find themselves caught up in a whirl of revisions, rewrites, and delays. They may find that writers become discontented and procrastinate on their writing assignments. These are costly consequences of a necessary review and editing process. In this workshop, you will discover how to:
- Break out of a costly review and editing cycle.
- Establish a review process that adds measurable value.
- Encourage collaboration between writer and reviewer.
- Gain measurable payback from the time you spend reviewing others' writing.
- Reduce the amount of time you spend editing.
Who Should Participate
- Anyone who is responsible for reviewing somebody else's writing.
- Anyone who wants to cut editing time and improve writing abilities dramatically.
What You Can Expect
This one-day workshop is highly applied and practical. Participants start with self-assessment exercises to gain insight into their own practices. Through exercises and problem-solving discussions, participants learn to see the editing process from the writer's point of view, and they discover new and more constructive ways of giving feedback to writers. Participants use samples of their own work, and they create targeted action plans to implement on the job.
Available Workshop Modules
Measuring the Cost of the Review Process
- Calculating cost and payback
- Self-assessment exercises: review and editing practices
Identifying Levels of Review
- What do you look for when you edit?
- Managing the three levels of review
- Scoring of your review levels
Giving Feedback to Writers: What's Your Review Style?
- The influence of your review on the writer
- Three review styles: Reviser, Adviser, Coach
- Scoring: What's your review style?
- How to choose the most appropriate style
- What to do instead of editing
Building a Double-Payback Review Process
- Measure the return from your editing time
- Calculate the cost of a single-purpose review
- Review drafts at the appropriate level
- Select the most productive review style for the circumstances
Coaching Auditors to Write Better Reports
- The need for up-front direction
- How to give constructive feedback
- Checklist: Symptoms of over-editing
- Six pledges for managing writers
- Use a coaching discussion to resolve issues of substance
- Concurrent or sequential review?
- Assess the cause of continued writing problems
Building Pride of Authorship
- Establish ownership
- Be sensitive to writers' sensitivities
- Ten ways to overcome writers' defensiveness
- How to establish two-way communication
- Using peer review as a productive exercise
- The reviewer's commitments
- The writer's commitments
Action Planning
- How to become a coach to writers
- Build your coaching toolkit
- Count the rewards of coaching
- Applying appropriate review levels and styles on the job
Get the book that goes along with this workshop
To
Revise or Not to Revise
For further information:
Angela J. Maniak
191 Prescott Hill Road
Northport, Maine 04849
207-338-0108
angela@amaniak.com
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