Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

This has never been my experience.  In my experience (which
Idon't assume is typical), documents with high page counts
are usually the result of a tech writer taking the voluminous
inputs provided by engineers and/or marketing types and
pasting it into documents with minimal attention to brevity or
clarity.  I can almost always take this kind of stuff, edit and
reorganize it and reduce it in bulk by 20-30% without even
trying very hard (I'd bet that most people here could do the
same), and the reaction from those who originally gave it to
me upon reading it and seeing that all the important stuff is
still there is usually something along the lines of "How the
**** did you do that?"

Gene Kim-Eng



"Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:259695 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> Gene:
>
> While I totally agree with you, there is an old TW
> saying: "Great technical communications is so simple
> and straight forward (and short), they (management)
> will wonder what took you so long."  Unfortunately,
> this is still true with many - or most - managers; and
> therefore many a TW, whether he/she admits it or not,
> feels compelled to strive for high page counts.



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