TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: Re[2]: multiple TWs for a project From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:hhager -at- dttus -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:35:18 PST
Tony writes:
In writing a properly chunked document, the TWs will not have to do a
lot of coordinating between themselves. It is in coordinating the
different chunks that major disagreements occur.
Harry Hager asks:
So, Tony, you are advocating that tech writers individually go off in
their own corner, write their chunks of a large project, and then add
it to the pile of chunks without any coordinating or peer reviews in
the meantime?
Tony Markatos responds:
Damn straight! If I'm forced to coordinate with another writer on a
project, only one of us is coming out alive!
Just kidding. There will always be a need to coordinate, and planned peer
reviews are a good idea. However, by properly chunking the project, we
reduce the amount of unplanned coordination required.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
