Re: text production process

Subject: Re: text production process
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:59:13 -0500



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Stockman" <mstockman -at- mac -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: January 25, 2003 07:37 PM
Subject: Re: text production process


|
| I hope Andrew doesn't take your advice... I thought his point was a good
| one, which (if I'm interpreting it correctly) was that the original
| poster asked a question that just dripped with management buzzwords, and
| didn't really ask anything meaningful. I've been a tech writer for over
| 15 years, and I've never even encountered a "text production process."
| I've taken on projects and have then written documentation of some kind
| that was appropriate to the products involved. This usually happened on
| tight deadlines and without spare time to develop formal processes.
|
| So Andrew's thinly-veiled suggestion that the question itself seems
| designed to avoid actual work, was well taken.
|

Better to ask a poster what he means than jump to conclusions about the
poster's motivations just because one has never considered a documentation or
text process as something that might be useful.


BONNIE GRANAT
Editing & Writing
http://www.editors-writers.info





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