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Subject:Re: Help - my consultants cannot write! From:Andrew Plato <andrew -dot- plato -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Weissman, Jessica" <WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:01:31 -0700
Yes, information security.
Templates, I haz them. I even have an on-staff tech writer. My problem
is consultants who blather and simply cannot write. It is dragging
down our report writing process and creating inefficiencies. Like any
greedy capitalist pig, i need to find away to squeeze more out of less
and complete reports faster. So my thought is if I can get these
people writing better in the beginning it will reduce the load on our
tech writer and produce better overall content.
Andrew Plato
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Weissman, Jessica
<WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com> wrote:
> Even though I suspect Andrew's company works on computer and system security rather than physical security, the basic idea here is excellent. Templates that include adaptable boilerplate along with concept outlines for the various types of reports and assessments, along with reusable blocks of prose, will get the consultants fairly far along the way to a usable document.
>
> It might be worthwhile to have a technical writer with some background in whatever type of security you deal in work with you or the consultants to draft the boilerplate and create the templates and outlines for you.
>
> - Jessica
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