In early 2009, Scriptorium Publishing conducted a survey to measure how and why technical communicators are adopting structured authoring.

The survey received 616 responses. 29 percent of respondents indicated that they had already implemented structured authoring.

Only 16 percent indicated that they do not plan to implement structured authoring.

The remaining respondents were either in the process of implementing structured authoring (14 percent), planning to do so (20 percent), or were considering it (21 percent).

This report summarizes our findings. Sections in the report are as follows:

• Momentum for structured authoring
• Why implement structured authoring?
• Implementation success
• DITA adoption increases
• Estimating implementation effort
• Implementation cost
• Who is actually doing the work?
• Authoring tools
• Change management
• Training and education
• Survey demographics
• Survey methodology
• About Scriptorium Publishing
• Appendix: Survey questions

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