Something that I have found to be quite helpful when revising my drafts, mentioned in guideline 3 of chapter 14, is reading my draft aloud. Often when I don't read aloud, my mind will try to fill in the blanks if a word is missing, or certain sentences will sound better in my head than read out loud. Another helpful tool during revision mentioned in the reading is have someone review your draft. This is something I don't do enough of due to time constraints. In the last writing class I took, we completed peer reviews on many of our drafts. Sometimes this process can be less than helpful, as I experienced early in the class. Other times, peer reviews can provide positive feedback, as I later discovered with different classmates. I think that it's a matter of finding people that don't try to say how great things are in your paper, but rather, make changes that would make the paper even better.
Chapter 15 will be something that I will refer to for my group project of designing a software task. One thing that will be interesting when trying to conduct a test of the task, is not intervening to help my audience when the test is being conducted. I think that it will be hard to refrain from helping those that require assistance, but I know that that is the purpose of the test, to find the areas that people have trouble with. One useful suggestion found in this chapter is to remain unobtrusive during observation. Many people don't like to be closely watched when they are trying to concentrate on doing something, it's often distracting.
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