The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing

Writing Workshop #9Testing

As a writer, you need feedback before your target audience reads your final product. The testing step will get reactions, raise questions, and further clarify your written piece. By getting reader reactions before you submit the final draft, you give yourself one last chance to revise it for your intended audience.

Objectives

1.    To demonstrate the power of groups in the revision process (COACH method).

2.    To show the value of expert readers.

Activities

STEP 1

Call together your writing-process group. Give a copy of your draft to each member, then either read your draft aloud or ask them each to read it privately.

Now it’s time for reader response, but first be sure to introduce your critics to the COACH rule ...