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What They’re Saying:“A thousand thanks, Antonia. You were quite right to ask about those ambiguous sections. Thanks to your expertise, the new version looks a LOT better.”John, Volunteer Coordinator, Community Theatre |
My task was to tidy up a set of instructions for my fellow Front of House volunteers at a community theatre, to help them understand their “supporting roles.” My work on the handout consisted of several steps:
- giving a “common look and feel” to writing produced by several people
- teasing out bunched-up instructions, and grouping them in an orderly way
- listing the tasks in chronological order
- eliminating all unnecessary repetition and verbiage
- querying any unclear sections
- tidying up the grammar, spelling and punctuation.
As usual, I worked on this document in MS Word, with the program’s Track Changes function turned on to show what changes I’d made -- it looks something like this:
Then I created a “clean” copy, in order to remove all the distracting formatting marks and reveal the new, improved guidelines.
Below, you can view the three iterations: the original document, the edited version, and the clean copy. (Note: all documents are in PDF format.)
