Re: Estimating Editing Time...

Subject: Re: Estimating Editing Time...
From: "Burgan, Murrie W." <BURGAMW1 -at- APLMSG -dot- JHUAPL -dot- EDU>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:20:54 -0400

Clark Cone asked

> 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.

We estimate 1 to 2 pages per hour for substantive editing and 4 to 6
pages per hour for copyediting.

Murrie W. Burgan
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
murrie -dot- burgan -at- jhuapl -dot- edu

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