Siolon

A Tutorial On Tutorials

I found this fan­tas­tic arti­cle on writ­ing effec­tive tuto­ri­als. The fol­low­ing state­ment is made in the intro­duc­tion to the article:

“One of the biggest mis­takes you can pos­si­bly make is cre­at­ing a tuto­r­ial with the mind­set that it will be a quick traf­fic fix to help increase your traf­fic or increase your ad rev­enue. If you write a tuto­r­ial with these goals as your pri­mary objec­tive, not only will it likely NOT get accepted, but it will be tremen­dously obvi­ous that you had no inten­tion of teach­ing any­thing when you wrote it. Peo­ple who write for traf­fic gen­er­ally recy­cle the same con­tent, rush through the tuto­r­ial, and basi­cally com­mit every tuto­r­ial error I can think of. If you’re not look­ing to actu­ally teach some­thing and help peo­ple learn, don’t waste your time or ours.”