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Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides/ with Leslie O'Flahavan.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- O'Flahavan, Leslie, speaker.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Instructional films.
- Educational films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Carpenteria, CA:: linkedin.com, 2018.
- System Details:
- Latest version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. Adobe Flash Player Plugin. JavaScript and cookies must be enabled. A broadband Internet connection.
- Summary:
- Learn a step-by-step process for writing a quickstart guide to accompany a product or software.
- A quickstart guide is a short, getting-started document that usually accompanies a product or software. In this course, writing instructor Leslie O'Flahavan explains the components, best writing practices, and overall strategy for creating a quickstart guide that helps readers easily find answers to their questions. Leslie shares how to base your quickstart guide on your user manual or develop your guide by using customer feedback. She also discusses how to clearly identify the overall purpose of your guide, write clear headings, and use plain language. To wrap up, she covers methods for getting feedback from subject matter experts and users to ensure that your guide is both accurate and useful.
- Participant:
- Presenter: Leslie O'Flahavan
- Notes:
- 6/08/20181
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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