Niels van der Mast
List of John Benjamins publications for which Niels van der Mast plays a role.
Articles
2001 9. Collaborative writing for the government Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 171–210 | Chapter
Have you ever tried to read a governmental policy issue paper? Did you enjoy reading it? Probably not. Policy papers are usually considered to be a bad read. Not because policy writers are bad writers. On the contrary. The characteristics of policy papers are the direct result of a complex process… read more
2001 10. Strategic revision of public documents: How policy writers revise documents in order to reach consensus Reading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 211–232 | Chapter
Earlier research has shown that policy writers are strategists. Somehow, they know how to deal effectively with comments on draft versions of their documents in order to satisfy the various stakeholders in the (collaborative) writing process and generate consensus on their texts. But how do they do… read more