Society for Technical Communication Quality Special lnterest Group Quarterly Newsletter June 2003
Vol. 10, No. 2


Quarterly Newsletter of the STC Quality Special Interest Group

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Demonstrate Documentation Value-Add with NASA's Automated Requirement Measurement (ARM) Tool

Do your technical information products provide value to the organization? How do you know? How do you demonstrate a concept such as “value?”
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by Donn Le Vie, Jr.

 

Chronicle of a Six Sigma Project


This article describes an actual Six Sigma project that was successfully completed by a team of technical communicators. How did the process work, and what tools did this team apply?
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By Jill Finan

Musing on Metrics column
Order from Chaos – a Parable

A tale of customer satisfaction from an automobile repair shop.
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by Steven Jong

 

Member Profiles Column

This column offers individual profiles of Quality SIG members.
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by Marla Davis



The Careful Communicator
and Foreign Plurals

A great many people today can’t distinguish singular and plural forms in any foreign language except Spanish.
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by Hugh Hay-Roe

 


Book Review
Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment; How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
by William D. Byham, Ph.D. with Jeff Cox

If you have lost the loving feeling of where you work – what you do and whom you work for – you are not alone. What’s the solution?
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Reviewed by David Dick




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