How To - Charlie Blondell

How To Do Something Moderately To Very Important Is What You Are Expecting To Read As The First Sentence/Title Of This Passage, And With Most Posts, You Are Probably Correct, But Not This One
That was my title. Pretty clever, if I say so. Cleverness or irony has to come from a source of fact or relevant, tangible truth. With almost every blog post below or above this one, a step by step list or drug-on, eye-dulling "how to" is refrained through the eyes and keyboards of my classmates. It's boring and repetitive, and I hope to give you a break. Instead of an instruction guide on how to ride a bike or build a tree house, the following will be a brief manual on how to write a "how to."
The instructor must first have endured or taken the challenge on himself. No one can give full conviction on a material without prior knowledge and hands-on experience. The subject matter must be studied. No detail may be overlooked if this product or activity is to be replicated through the works of another engineer. One must fully understand how the system or technique works; they must know EXACTLY how every gear shifts.
Very important is the plan-of-action. What I mean is that the individual developing this "how to" must sit down and come up with a perfect guide that will lead to success. What must they include? What mustn't they include? Is this important? Is that? No they won't need this. Oh, I have to put that in. That has to be clearer. No it doesn't. Yes it does. No, it DOESN'T. Yes, it DOES. QUIT ARGUING WITH ME!
Details. Details. Details... They cannot be overlooked. As stated before, the details are never ample; you can never have enough. Explicit explanations give way to a momentum of understanding. They allow for an actual, conceptual grasp of what must be worked through and completed to reach a final destination. So many authors of these "how to" guides give vague, inefficient writings to accomplish said goals. Their ideas seem coherent on paper, but on a larger, real-life scale, some are about as easy to follow as a physics equation. One must really work on creating a visual in the mind of the learner, making it easy and enjoyable to complete the task at hand.
To all of those mediocre "how to" writers out there, I pray that I have given some to maybe a LOT of insight on making your job a little more painless. To all of those pompous, know-it-all "how to" "scholars," have fun getting dozens of emails about how your guides simply suck.