From: Rhonda Bracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:19 PM
To: Martinek, Carla; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [TCP] STC Competition
I was a Tech Pubs judge and coordinator for the Australia
Chapter the past 3 years (not this year though). We received some 23 entries in
one of these years just for Tech Pubs alone! Not bad for a Chapter that spans a
continent and only has about 60 members who never meet. (To get some idea of the
scope and number of entries, take a look at the results from the past few years:
http://stc-aus.org.au/competitions_results.htm.
This comp has only been going for maybe 5 or 6 years.)
I've entered the
Australia Chapter Online Comp a few times (again, not this year).
Being a
judge and an entrant is definitely a win-win for me. As an entrant, I get
feedback on my work from peers (which, as a lone writer, is often very hard to
come by!). The judges see things that I haven't seen - usually because as the
lone writer I'm too close to it. I've used that feedback to improve not only the
doco it referred to, but also as guidelines for all my doco. Of course, you can
take or leave any judge's comment! But it is defnitely worth the price of
entering just to get that sort of peer evaluation.
As a judge, I found it
enlightening to read and review the work of others. Some entries I would never
have seen under normal circumstances as they were proprietary to an
organisation; others surprised me for the sheer beauty of their design and
layout (the words were usually good too!). I got lots of great ideas and
inspiration from some of the entries. Of course, the downside was that there
were some entries that were borderline disgraceful... poor (or no) editing,
illogical flow, writing that sucked (can't put it any other way!). Fortunately,
there weren't too many of those. However, despite that, the entrants got
feedback - the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. And the feedback was
always written in a constructive way.
My Aussie 2 cents
worth...
Rhonda
Rhonda Bracey
http://www.cybertext.com.au
AuthorIT
Certified Consultant
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