A Pattern Language for Writers’ Workshops

Abstract

Peer review is a crucial element of the quality improvement process for any document and more broadly for any intellectual work. Most intellectual disciplines rely on a peer review culture for the advancement of knowledge, and those disciplines often focus more on content than on expression. Design reviews and code walk-throughs focus on what might be broken, not on what works. Most refereed journals scrutinize works first against standards of formalism and second, if at all, for readability. The pattern community is less interested in the advancement of knowledge than in the broad dissemination of sound practice, and is equally concerned with content and expression.