Review and revise
Explore the critical process of reviewing and revising technical writing to improve clarity, accuracy, and structure. Understand how to ensure your document addresses the audience, answers key questions, and supports claims. This lesson guides you through effective review methods to enhance your documentation skills.
Why review?
Once you have finished with your first draft, it can feel like you're done, but you're not. Reviewing your document is a critical part of the writing process that will allow you to be able to catch inaccuracies, clarify ambiguities, clean up poorly written sentences, and make sure that everything your audience requires is covered before your document is shared. To review is to take a high-level look at your document to ensure that it satisfies its goal.
Reviewing is especially important when writing code documentation. If your document is unclear or brushes over important aspects of the code, the documentation will not be helpful when another developer needs to update or maintain the code you wrote.
You may feel too close to your draft to make the major changes necessary. Because of this, it may be ...