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Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day
Subject:Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day From:MaggiRos <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:48:08 -0800 (PST)
No one I've ever worked for, in a respectably long career,
has been interested in page counts as a metric. In fact,
most of them are happiest with shorter manuals and less
complex help systems. (I sometimes have to make a case for
more topics instead of fewer.)
Maybe that's just me.
Maggie
--- TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I'm not kidding in that request. How do you know that
> many or most
> managers and thus tech writers strive for high page
> counts based on an
> old TW saying?
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:49:23 -0800 (PST), Tony Markos
> <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > I really, really can not believe that an experience TW
> > exists who has not experienced this! Please TechComm
> > Dood - tell me your kidding in your request.
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