{"title":"Strategies in developing quick and dirty user's guides","authors":"A.J. Murphy","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1988.24039","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The author describes the quick and dirty computer user's guide. He examines how guides differ from manuals and quick reference cards, the problems they solve, their preparation, and their future. A quick and dirty guide focuses on one specific task, succinctly describing what to do. An illustration of a guide being developed for a college report assignment is presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":374472,"journal":{"name":"IPCC '88 Conference Record 'On the Edge: A Pacific Rim Conference on Professional Technical Communication'.","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IPCC '88 Conference Record 'On the Edge: A Pacific Rim Conference on Professional Technical Communication'.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1988.24039","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The author describes the quick and dirty computer user's guide. He examines how guides differ from manuals and quick reference cards, the problems they solve, their preparation, and their future. A quick and dirty guide focuses on one specific task, succinctly describing what to do. An illustration of a guide being developed for a college report assignment is presented.<>