How to Write a Good Tutorial

Published by Bart on March 18th, 2007 in Tutorials

A few weeks ago I posted an article called 'How to Produce a Good Video Tutorial' in which I summed up a few things that you should keep in mind when creating, well, a video tutorial. If you're more interested in working on written material, then check out this checklist on kingtuts.blogspot.com.

From the site:

Tutorials can be on almost any subject. All a tutorial does is teach someone something new. Tutorials can be on how to create a cool gadget, how to program in a certain language, how to set up a feature for a web page, how to ride a horse, how to meet girls, or anything else that someone might want to learn.

This is a guide to writing good tutorials (ones that will get accepted on this site.) Writing a good tutorial is easy and fun as long as know these basic steps.

The covered steps are:

Step 0 - Know your information
Step 1 - Organize your information.
Step 2 - Include lots of pictures.
Step 3 - Write in steps.
Step 4 - Make it fun!

Check out the full article for details on each step. Enjoy! (And start writing more tutorials. Now. I know you want to! ;-)

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8 Responses to “How to Write a Good Tutorial”

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1 Lasphere Mar 18th, 2007 at 8:52 am

defently gonna look at this :D thx
2 MathiasPedersen Mar 18th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Interesting. Definitely a good starting point when writing tutorials.

//Mathias
3 David Revoy Mar 18th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

Really good article.
4 PiPi Mar 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm

KingTuts.com is a dead link, I guess it should be http://kingtuts.blogspot.com/ ?

Anyhow, tnx for the post!

.::PiPi::.
5 Bart Mar 18th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Thanks PiPi - fixed.
6 donloho Mar 18th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

Step 2
Include Hundreds of thousands of pictures
or better yet, make a video (24 pictures per second)
7 Sephiroth the Bimbo Master Mar 18th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

Hey great article, I must read it all, to improve
8 Sephiroth the Bimbo Master Mar 18th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

Hey the link doesn't work, maybe is the server. I have to wait :(