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Subject:Re: The cost of producing printed documentation From:Ward Rosenberry <wardr -at- world -dot- std -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:44:32 -0500 (EST)
C. Crowley wrote:
> I worked for a titanic instrumentation company in Texas once myself,
> and we had this rough rule:
>
> 2 pages a day writing, 4 pages a day editing (start to finish of
> project).
What does 4 pages a day editing" entail? Our editing metric (heavy
copy editing) is 6 pages/hour first pass and 12-15 pages per hour
second pass.
Ward
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