Kracked Press wrote: >I see the postings about the complexity of the documents, but I have not seen any info about the size of the documents that are part of the "writing large" statement.
Document length does not correlate with document complexity. > But how many pages in the document would be considered as the low end for > "large document"? That depends upon the type of document. When I did a cut and paste, the tables collapsed. Words per document. The first line is, with three exceptions, the number of words in the document. The three exceptions are words per page. Words are calculating using standard printing metrics. The second line is the type of document. 0-100 FictionFactor Micro-fiction 0-7,500 SF Short Story 100-1,000 FictionFactor Flash fiction 250 Words per page for fiction 400 Words per page for academia 832 Words per page, single spaced 1,000 F100 Short Article 1,000-1,500 Length of a ten minute sermon 1,000-2,500 F1000 Medium Article 1,000-7,500 FictionFactor Short story 2,500 – 8,000 F1000 Long Article 4,000-7,000 Kindle candy 8,000-15,000 F1000 Maximum Length Article 17,500-40,000 SF Novella 20,000-30,000 Middle Grade Essay 20,000-50,000 FictionFactor Novella 40,000-50,000 Upper Middle Grade Essay 40,000-60,000 SF Novel from 1960s 40,000-80,000 SF Novel from 1970s 45,000-50,000 How To books 50,000 Comprehensive Report 50,000-110,000 FictionFactor Novel 55,000-90,000 Young Adult Fiction 60,000-70,000 Length of a mystery 64,531 Amazon: median length of all books 7,500-17,500 SF Novelette 7,500-20,000 FictionFactor Novelette 70,000-115,000 Adult Fiction 80000 Young Adult SF Novel 2010 90,000-120,000 SF Novel 2015 100,000 PhD Dissertation 100,000 Number of good words that writer writes per year 100,000-115,000 Science Fiction Novel 2010 110,000–10,000,000 Epic Fiction 200,000 Biography 240,000 Short Mega-novel 300,000 Number of words a writer writes per year 1000000 Average length mega-novel As such, if you treat software documentation as a "How-To" manual, the target is roughly 50,000 words. The caveat is how the target audience is, and why the documentation is being written. > that included graphics/photos and other options that makes the document > complex one, Graphics, tables, charts, and illustrations make for complex documents. >SO, is there any consensus on where is the line drawn for this document is a large one and this other is not? Pages per Document The first line is the number of pages in the document. The second line is the type of document. The third line is where that document is used/found.(Document Aim) 1 Cover Letter Article submission, job application, etc 1 Press Release Brief information for a broad audience 1 Editorial Preface Short summary of an issue 1 General Article Education of the wider public 2 Curriculum Vitae Career summary 3 IGAS Short Double spaced short Report 5 Patent Protection of technical innovation 10 Research Article Presentation of primary, original results 10 IGAS Standard Double spaced report 10 Number of pages of a short story Short Story 15 Training report Education 15 HAWU Report Double spaced report 20 Review Article Review of Knowledge in a domain 20 Expert Report Analysis of Knowledge 25 IGAS Long Report Double Spaced report 30 Industrial Report Research & Development 100 Book Education 200 Thesis Research > Does anyone know any "official"reference about this? For those two tables, I didn't write down my sources. I started collecting the information, purely for my own use and benefit. In theory, I could locate the sources, using either _Google Search_ or _Google Scholar_. > that was required to use by writers to be taken as a "professional" in > whatever field of study. Virtually every field of study has its own style manual. _The Chicago Manual of Style_ is the usual fallback, for style manuals developed in, or for the United States. Usually, but not always, the style manual will state which edition is to be followed. When a specific edition is not provided, editors get into big fights. >not know what the new standards are or what is considered a large document and >not a "normal sized" one. The working assumption of current technical documentation manuals, is that the content will be presented online. As such, page length is ignored. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted