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Article: Giving useful feedback about writing. (Great Communicators)
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- Internal Auditor
- Article date:
- August 1, 1993
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Finding the right approach to help internal auditors improve their writing is an essential -- but tenuous -- challenge for audit supervisors.
THERE'S NO getting around it -- in an audit department, writing is an integral part of the job. Auditors are responsible for communicating complex information clearly and persuasively, a task made more demanding by the politics of the job and the personalities of the players. Auditors must deliver their message to the right audience, at the right time, and in a way that best suits those circumstances. Clearly, the better auditors write, the better they are able to perform their jobs.
Those auditors who write well do so ...