It’s Pretty Simple Stuff
Writing a How-To guide is easy stuff, if you know what to do. Identify your audience, research your guide, build your outline, glue on your facts, intersperse graphics to help convey ideas, polish and reshape from there. Repeat the polish a few times with help and feedback then you should be on your way quickly to a great How-To guide.
One response to “Conclusion”
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Hello All!
I hope you enojyed reading my How-To “Make a How-To Guide” Guide. I was inspired to write this by my love of meta-analyses and recursion. When assigned the project “Write a How-To guide to write a technical document we haven’t covered in class” and I realized “How-To Guides themselves hadn’t been covered at the time of assignment, I was tickled pink.
In this project I got to learn to build a wordpress site, which albeit a bit barebones is completely free of third party plugins, giving me a playground to learn php in and build my own plugins. I learned how to work around Apache/Nginx not playing nice with Caddy, my preferred web-server (docker really saved my hide here, I was bashing my face against inconsistent documentation for days trying to get wordpress.org working on caddy). I learned that sometimes it is better to just pay someone to host the site for me, and also that I’m too stubborn to do that.
I feel like this guide helped to cement my knowledge and really served as a nice capstone for the course.
I want to thank Dr DeBlassie for teaching this course, my partner, Joelle, for keeping me sane when the lack of specific guidance roadblocked me like the Springfield dome, and I want to thank my friends and family for offering words of encouragement and brief review as I shared my live-drafts of the guide.
Tscheuss!!
Nora
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