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> I need information about estimating time for the editing portion of a
> technical writing project. There are formulas for calculating the
> number of pages a day for writing, but I haven't been able to find
> anything similar for editing. It would be more helpful yet if the
> information is broken out into the levels of edit.
Here are some of the guidelines we used at my last job (if I remember
correctly, they are loosely based on EEI's time estimate guidelines):
Substantive edit
3 pages/hour
Copyedit
5 pages/hour
Proofreading edit
10 pages/hour
Quality Control edit (basically glancing through right before it goes off to
the printer to make sure everything's there, etc.)
25 pages/hour
Rewrite (if you're actually rewriting as you do a substantive edit)
2 pages/hour
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Kirstin Mercer
Senior Technical Editor
CyberCash, Inc.
kirstin -at- cybercash -dot- com
Opinions expressed are
my own, and have nothing
to do with those of my
employer.
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