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Subject:RE: How do you ensure document quality? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:43:28 -0400
Sure. In the context of documentation, QA (Quality Assurance) says: "How can we create documentation to reach the highest possible quality in the first draft?" QC (Quality Control) says: "How should we review our documentation after we create it?"
Dan Goldstein
Quality Assurance Manager
Riverain Medical
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Subject: Re: How do you ensure document quality?
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Funny that in a QA journal, they take such a QC approach to document quality.
Can you expand on that? Or point to an earlier discussion that does?
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