To learn about quick start guides, please examine the three resources provided in Content in week 3:

• What is a Quickstart Guide?
• Quick Reference Guides Right Where You Need Them
• Technical Writing Tips: The 80/20 Rule

You might also benefit from looking at the Sample Quick Start Guides in Content in week 3. While these quick start guides are longer than the one you will be writing, they present different strategies for incorporating text and images to accommodate their users.

Then answer the following questions. Your answers can be 2-3 sentences:

1. Most quick start guides are one page long. They have to be one page so that the user can look at them at a glance. What are some of the challenges to reducing a set of instructions of, for example, 3-4 pages into one page?
2. How does the 80/20 rule relate to the usefulness of quick start guides?
3. In your experience, when you purchase a product or a new piece of software, do you tend to use the user manual more, or do you tend to use the quick start guide more? Why?