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Subject:Re: acceptable error rates From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:25:18 -0700
At 10:57 AM 10/24/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Our company is presently developing
>a list of goals for our tech writers. One
>area that they would like to have better defined is the
>industry standard for the acceptable rate of typographical
>errors in a document.
I am of the school that technical writers write. The day somebody starts evaluating me on my rate of typos, which I assume to be misspellings and other related ilk but not technical inaccuracy, is the day I look for another job.
Regards...Kris
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