Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blake, Gary

Titel

The Blake Scale: A New Rating System

Ist Teil von

• Claims, 2012-06

Ort / Verlag

New York: ALM Media Properties, LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• People are forever using the phrase, On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the least because it offers a range by which the listener or reader can judge the relative importance of a particular example. Yet, in writing, which claims professionals engage in as much or more than professional writers, there is no accepted criteria by which we can universally judge a particular document as being excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor. This is because rating writing skills is more subjective than, say, the scientific manner in which earthquakes are measured by the Richter magnitude scale. For ease of understanding, I have devised The Blake Scale. Similar to an academic rating system, this scale uses five broad categories to help claims professionals discern the overall quality of one typical page of a business-related letter--either template or free form--report, e-mail, memo, or guidelines pertaining to best practices.