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RE: Asking for Author Credit In The Documentation?
Subject:RE: Asking for Author Credit In The Documentation? From:Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- aps -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:09:23 -0700
Interesting topic. In most instances, I haven't gotten author credit
for my work, except when I have written my occasional technical article.
I don't do this near enough, tending to spend my "off work" writing time
on more frivolous projects like music...
In most cases, though I have had ownership of the work, including
coordinating the schedule, getting the reviews from the proper folks,
and even sometimes production and publishing. In my current job I have
authorship but the documents are actually owned by the SMEs. These are
not necessarily techies; the documents are process documents, so they
tend to be owned by manager types or high-level engineers responsible
for policies and processes. I find the set-up a little difficult to
manage, as I don't really have ownership of the work, but still have to
be responsible for the quality of the document.
The ways I have worked around this so far are to keep in touch with my
document owner, make suggestions as to how to handle the reviews,
request to see/hear about all the reviews, etc.
Rosie Wilcox
Rose A. Wilcox
Center for Process Excellence, CHQ 8th Floor
602-250-3195
Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- aps -dot- com
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