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RE: Do Document Reviews Provide Signifcant Feedback?
Subject:RE: Do Document Reviews Provide Signifcant Feedback? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:00:49 -0500
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> Question to all listerv members:
>
> Someone recently posted about having people review
> his/her up to 600 page manuals. Can such reviews
> result in significant feedback such as reorgan1zation
> suggestions or the filling of logical "holes", or will
> feedback on text be limited to minnor corrections?
>
> Tony Markos
>
We called then "technical reviews," and they were restricted to verifying
that the technical content is error-free. If other things were noticed in
passing, fine. But reviewers usually checked only those features for which
they were responsible.
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