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Lightening Talk: Making Good Instructions
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Cora Hays-Magan
August 11, 2015
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Lightening Talk: Making Good Instructions
A lightening talk about good technical instructions for a Rails Bridge Chicago Rocketeer Roundup
Cora Hays-Magan
August 11, 2015
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Transcript
Making Good Instructions By Cora Hays-Magan
Cora @CorainChicago Github: CorainChicago
Instructions: • detailed information telling how something should be done,
operated, or assembled.
1, 2, 3...Oh please
What exactly are you trying to do?
Good Instructions Give a full picture Empower Explain
Here’s some research Concise and Clear Know Your Audience Add
Graphical Elements Design Your Page Create a Flow Test Your Instructions from: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professional_and_Technical_Writing/Instructions
Example Concise and Clear Know Your Audience Add Graphical Elements
Design Your Page Create a Flow Test Your Instructions
When instructions are lacking a. Google to a nice blog
post b. Let them know, nicely c. Write your own (after you brilliantly figure it out)
None
Which one do I use???
Cora Hays-Magan @CorainChicago github.com/CorainChicago “Instructions are good, but good instructions
are even better.”