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Subject:RE: Documentation estimates From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:14:44 -0800 (PST)
Are we commercial typists?
Richard Lewis
coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com wrote:
Quoth Dori Green:
>I do remember that many years ago there was an article in the STC Journal
>suggesting that as a _rough_ average, the figure of 7 pages per day could
be
>expected from a good tech writer.
It seems that most standards are based on page count. Does anyone
estimate by word count?
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