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Re: Striving To Increase The Page Count Was: Estimation of the number of pages...

Subject: Re: Striving To Increase The Page Count Was: Estimation of the number of pages...
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:50:52 -0500




Suzanne -dot- Cole -at- pattersondental -dot- com wrote:


Dick commented, "This can result from writers' assumption that contributing
more pages than the estimate projected is evidence of higher-than-normal
productivity, hence a good thing."


Just an observation about human nature, not a recommended practice by any means ;-)


Perhaps that's a good thing in the writer's eyes, and no doubt that happens
in some shops--but in our company, it wouldn't fly. High page counts are
daunting to our users, whether or not the users understand that highly
graphic, white-spaced information will increase the page count. (They
consider a 35-page document to be unwieldy.)

Clear, concise, navigable and carefully illustrated documents are more
likely to be read and used, thus meeting the reader's need. That's the
entire purpose of our documentation; we don't provide it as a "CYA"
necessity, we provide it for our users. I, as a lone writer, must try to
manage page count and content carefully so users will want to pick up the
documentation.


Agreed on all counts.

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