Commentary I A retrospective look at STOP in action. Author's Responseto Commentaries Wendel S. Starkey 4421 Dorthea Street Yorba Linda, CA 92886 wendels@home.com The commentaries of Mark Bernstein, Jonathan Price, Robert E. Horn, and Edward H. Weiss regarding the STOP report are all insightful and offer several new perspectives on the principles of technical communications. One aspect of the STOP technique that did not receive the attention it deserved in the report (and hence the attention it might have earned in the commentaries) is the role it played as a discipline for enforcing management control of and strategic unity in large, multi.author engineering documents. It is no coincidence that STOPwas developed in the era of industrial publications when the single-author, single-intelligence document was vanishing and the document that demanded the talents of many authors and was often colossal in terms of page count was coming on the scene like thunder. Something had to be done to ensure continuity and strategic coherence under these new circumstances of composition. STOP storyboard reviews, backed up by subsequent critique/troubleshooting of the written topics for satisfactionof STOPquality criteria, turned out to be a workable, although demanding, solution. At the very outset of putting
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Author's response to commentaries
Starkey, Wendel S.
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 23 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1999
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