Podcast 123: Document quality checklists

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at different ways to measure and check the quality of the content we produce. Transcript In this episode of the podcast, we’re going to be looking at document quality, or specifically how we can check our content our technical writing content before it goes live. We… Read more »

Beta release of our Revising and Editing Content course

We’ve just published, as a beta release, our latest e-learning course: Revising and Editing Content. It covers the following topics: Editing Revising content Revising tools Editing and revising exercises Getting your content reviewed The relationship between editors and writers Revising and Editing Content is available as part of WriteLessons, which provides you with access to a range of e-learning… Read more »

Reviewing and Editing Technical Documents Course – Update

We’ve started work on the next course to be added to the WriteLessons bundle of online training courses – “Reviewing and Editing Technical Documents”. In this situation, we may try an experiment and release each module as it is completed, rather than publish all the modules in one go. The modules will be: revising, editing, copy… Read more »

SankeyTextualVariant: Visualisation software for comparing texts

Professor Martin Paul Eve of Birkbeck College, University of London, has released, for free, the visualisation software that helped him compare the texts of the novel Cloud Atlas. It displays the differences as a Sankey diagram. It’s intended to be used for comparing contemporary fiction, but it may have uses for analysing other long documents. See: SankeyTextualVariant… Read more »