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Re: Chattiness in manuals

Subject: Re: Chattiness in manuals
From: David Farbey <dfarbey -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk>
To: SaraTörök <sara -dot- torok -at- se -dot- nucletron -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:21:23 +0100

Sara,

"By the word" payments tend to be used where publishers and editors have quantities of column inches to fill. In my experience in the UK, journalism and copywriting are often paid by the word, but technical writing is generally paid either by the hour or the day, or by the project, when it is not being done by a staff member with a regular salary.

The last time I saw a US tech writer being paid by the word it was in a humorous comic strip in the Dilbert series, and the idea was being ridiculed!

David


SaraTörök wrote:

Hi Dan

Depends on what you classify as manuals, but in school books (even at university level) and technical litterature, the chatty style is much more common from US writers than it is in Europe, and we tend to get quite disturbed by it.
Paid by the word - probably not full-time technical writers so often, but, again, for authors of hand books, tutorials, technical litterature, this is much more common in US publications. Is this not true anymore?
Regards,
Sara
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