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[Michelle_Corbin -at- TIVOLI -dot- COM]

>>Does anyone have a list of tips/criteria for evaluating writers?
>>
>>As the company's editor, I have been asked by my boss to give a brief
>>report/evaluation of the writers and their competence with the
applications
>>we use. All ideas will be appreciated.

Hey Gina!

I was asked to do something similar to this at a previous job of mine.  I
was
somewhat uncomfortable with this, because I really wanted to be seen as a
peer.
So, I developed a set of checklists that I used while editing their
materail.
When I handed back the edits, I reviewed the items on the checklists with
the
authors and we discussed the items that I found.  It became a mentoring
tool, a
communications tool, and in a way an evaluation tool.  Each of us signed off
on
the checklist and we handed it off to our manager.  It worked fairly well.
I
developed the checklists from Judith Tarutz' book "Technical Editing."

Good luck!

Michelle

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Michelle Lynn Corbin
Senior Technical Editor, Tivoli Systems

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    E-mail:     michelle -dot- corbin -at- tivoli -dot- com
    Phone:    (919) 254-1960  // tie 444-1960
     Office:     Bldg: 503 Office: B317 (RTP)
Address:    Tivoli Systems, P.O. Box 12195,
           3039 Cornwallis Road,
           Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2195

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