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[quote=Anonymous]Identify the two best writers/editors on your team. Do you think they could take over a lot of this work? Make them a layer between you and the rest of the staff, so you only get things once they've already given them a first pass. You will still wind up doing review and editing, but things will arrive on your desk closer to a final draft. The goal should be for you to never or almost never have to correct things like basic grammar and punctuation, and to rarely have to pass something back for major structural issues. That way your review can be just to perfect it before it goes to your boss.

I'd also look at your staff and really assess their strengths and weaknesses. Can you allocate assignments in a way that better plays to their strengths. Do you have weak writers who should basically never touch long-form projects? People who are decent writers but prone to typos and other errors when they are in a rush could be shifted to projects with longer headways so they have a chance to take their time, and so on. I'd be rigorous about this -- apply a rubric to each member of the team and see if you can shift people around to maximize the staff you have.

And then I'd really emphasize writing, especially "clean" writing without basic spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors, in future hiring. Again, I know you are limited somewhat as a fed, but to the degree that you can insert some screening for writing quality into the process, do so.[/quote]

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