Teamwork is Paramount to writing a successful technical document. In most organi

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Teamwork is Paramount to writing a successful technical document. In most organizations, a technical writer must work with multiple teams to create a successful technical document.

So, let's discuss your experience collaborating on projects, either in school or at work.

In your experience, which of the following has worked best and why?

Divide and conquer: The team planned the project together and randomly assigned tasks to each member?

Specialization: The team planned the project together and assigned tasks according to each person's expertise.

Sequence: One person drafted the project , passed it along to the next person who revised the project, who passed it along to the next person and so on.

Dialogue: Two people worked on the project; one drafted it and gave it to the other , who revised it and returned it for more revisions, until both partners we're happy with the result (or until the deadline).

Synthesis: Two or three people created the project together, working side by side. Every responsibility in the project was shared completely.

Explanation / Answer

Among all the given team work strategies (for writing technical document), specialization has worked successfully in most cases. Specialization is kind of team work which focuses on each team members' specialized skill, where he/she is excellent. After studying the job in team, the team (leader) assigns task to suitable members per their level of expertise. This facilitates the process in terms of efficiency (as every member gets what they like and are best in it, and therefore, execute it with accuracy), timeliness (job is done in right time) and cost effectiveness (effecient persons are doing jobs which cut the cost of repeated checking and correction).Answer-specialization. The other options are not suitable as they might not produce result accurately, timely and cost-effectively.

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