How To Write A Good Tutorial

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.

Step 0 - Know your information. Before you even think of writing a tutorial you need to know what you are teaching. This is the most important of all the steps, even a tutorial with bad grammar, no pictures, and incomplete steps will teach the reader something if you know what you are talking about.

Step 1 - Organize your information. A tutorial needs all the information about the subject in the correct order to help another person recreate an experience. Hopefully the reader will learn something useful from your tutorial.

Step 2 - Include lots of pictures. As many as possible. People just love pictures and as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. In tutorials this is absolutely true. (I realize this tutorial contains no pictures, this is one of the few kinds that doesn't need any.) Get them ready beforehand and paste them in as you write.

Step 3 - Write in steps. This makes it easier for people to keep track of where they are. Try to make each step as detailed as possible while still being short enough so a person can remember it without referring back to your tutorial.

Step 4 - Make it fun! People like to have fun while learning something new. :)

That's it! If you decide to write a good tutorial, please submit it to this site here!