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Subject:Re: Ratio of writers to pages they maintain From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:00:20 -0800 (PST)
This is just a slight variation on the old "How many
pages per day should a TW be able to write?" question.
And that question is valid for word processing
secretaries - not for professional communicators.
In the TW assignment that I am most proud of, it took
me about a month to compose nine smallish paragraphs.
In the TW assignment that I am most embarrassed of, I
cranked out four to six pages a day (for many a
month).
The objective is effective communications - not word
or page count. Does not matter if we are creating new
material or "maintaining" old documentation.
Tony Markos
Show Me Your DFD's
--- Paul Pehrson <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I am curious to get some feedback from list members
> about the ratio of
> writers to pages maintained per year in their
> organizations. (I
> checked the archives, and only found info on writer
> to
> developer/engineer ratios; I didn't find anything on
> ratios of writers
> to pages maintained.).....
>
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