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Subject:RE: Time Writing vs. Time Updating From:Lyn Worthen <Lyn -dot- Worthen -at- caselle -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:44:01 -0700
Having lived in both worlds, I can answer this from the POV of both a
full-time TW -and- a freelancer, and would have to say that the answer to
your question has -nothing- to do with my employment status, and
-everything- to do with how much the product has changed between releases:
- For some projects, it's little more than adding the new bits, touching up
the bits that have been modified, and cleaning up things I didn't have time
to do the way I -really- wanted to for the previous version.
- For other projects, each release requires almost brand-new material (such
as when the product went from being DOS-based to Windows -- while the
concepts & goals were the same, everything else about it was different).
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Branham
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:26 AM
I'm curious to hear outside feedback about a question that has come up among
a group of my colleagues.
If you are a full-time technical writer, what percentage of your time from
release to release do you spend revising existing documentation vs. writing
completely new documentation?
How different is it for roving contract writers who work from project to
project?
Thanks,
Craig B.
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