Re: paying by the word

[Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Old TW Saying: Good tech comm is so simple and straight forward that they (management) will wonder what took you so long.   

  Richard Lewis
  
Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
  Jessica Weissman wrote:
> Pay by the word may not be used so much these days, but at one time some
> US government agencies measured tech writer productivity by word count.
> My uncle, who was a project manager for Defense Department development
> projects, tells stories of editing writing for clarity only to have the
> writer object because the word count was being lowered too much.

 		
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