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Re: Desiging your Documentation/Writing Department

Subject: Re: Desiging your Documentation/Writing Department
From: Elizabeth J Allen <eja -at- samurai -dot- com>
To: "Stephanie Erickson" <serickson -at- infinitecampus -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:54:06 -0400

I would scrap the entire writing department and integrate the technical writers into the engineering/development teams. I firmly believe that tech writers need to be embedded within their functional groups, not set apart like a display at the zoo.

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth J. Allen
Samurai Consulting Inc.
eja -at- samurai -dot- com


On 8-Aug-06, at 4:47 PM, Stephanie Erickson wrote:

If you were given the opportunity to redesign your existing writing
department or create an entire new department, what would be some of the
things you would do? Is this a dream question of everyone's or just
mine?

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