User’s Guide vs Users’ Guide - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 3, 2011 · 33 The difference is in the number of users. User's guide: A guide belonging to one user. Users' guide: A guide belonging to all the users. I'd be inclined to use the first sense rather than the …
What are the differences between "manual", "guide" and "instruction"?
Because "manual" has connotations of dense, boring text, some manufacturers or technical writers prefer the label "guide" for what would traditionally be called a "manual." Instructions is the most …
word choice - "Instructions on" vs. "instructions for" - English ...
Apr 30, 2013 · Which of the following is correct? Instructions on how to do this will be provided in the User Manual. Instructions for how to do this will be provided in the User Manual.
Differences between "tutorial", "guide" and "how-to"
User guides are most commonly associated with electronic goods, computer hardware and software. Most user guides contain both a written guide and the associated images. In the case of computer …
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 3, 2020 · I am writing a technical user manual (for software) and a bit confused about using "Getting Started" or "Get Started" term as a page title. Any suggestions?
grammatical number - "These include" or "This includes" - English ...
Mar 4, 2012 · I am writing a user manual and am stuck upon these include and this includes. Do I use This includes when there is only one thing involved? For example, "This includes normal users" and …
citation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
I'm updating a user manual which references other sections within the same document. Currently the cross references look like this: Lorem ipsum blah blah (see "Formigulating the whatzit"...
Correct place of apostrophe: friend's or friends' [duplicate]
Mar 27, 2016 · A quick Google search (actually I use Duckduckgo but "a quick Duck or DDG search" would sound weird...) showed that "friend's" was a bit more common, whereas a Google user manual …
Log the user out of system or log out the user from the system
I was working on a user manual and I want to write that a particular action would result in user being logged out of the system. I'm wondering whether the sentence should be "The action would log the …
Why do we call an instruction book a "Manual"?
Jul 17, 2013 · As you probably noticed, all those uses of "manual" you know mean "hands". Now try to link those two concepts - an instruction book and hands - what do you get? "Handbook", which is …