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Subject:RE: Do you permit SMEs to revise your drafts? From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:34:53 -0500
Wow, Mark. I sure hope you aren't describing *your* corporate culture -- it
sounds like the fifteenth level of Heck. You describe a situation where the
writer gives a working draft to an SME, whose revised draft is then released
without first going back to the writer. Regardless of who controls the doc,
the writer should at least *see* the darn thing!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Do you permit SMEs to revise your drafts?
>
> A lot depends on the corporate culture, but I'd be
> wary of giving an SME the opportunity to cut the
> writer out of the loop. Given access to the draft,
> the impatient SME can do the revision and decide
> there is no need to waste time consulting with
> the writer on it. The SME can then resist further
> consultation-- either for lack of time or for
> reasons of ego-involvement in the writing-- and
> in the worst case, again depending on the
> corporate culture, the SME can bypass the
> writer and send the document off directly
> to the customer.
>
> Did I mention that a lot depends on the
> corporate culture?
>
> Mark L. Levinson
> Herzliya, Israel
> nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
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