Re: multiple TWs for a project

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Markatos <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: multiple TWs for a project


>Tony Markatos said:
>
>In properly chunked projects, all procedure to accomplish a given task will
>be together. (The end-user will not have to jump around between different
>sections of the documentation to accomplish the task.)
>
>In writing a properly chunked document, the TWs will not have to do a lot
of
>coordinating between themselves.  It is in coordinating the different
chunks
>that major disagreements occur.
>
>Bonnie Granat asks:
>
>I didn't know there were two meanings of "chunking" in technical writing.
>I've only known the meaning of chunking as breaking apart information into
>small bits, both visually and logically.
>
>Tony Markatos responds:
>
>The logical way to chunk (break into smaller pieces) procedural information
>is by task.  In this way the dependencies between the chunks are minimized.
>


Is your use of the word common? "Chunking" in my experience is about
presentation and layout only. Rather than repeat my initial comment, please
read it again.

Bonnie Granat
http://home.att.net/~bgranat