Writing Homework Help

1. Describe a possible white paper for an external audience.  Keep in mind that, for a white paper to an external audience, you will not be writing to an audience for an organization of which you are a member.  In other words, you would not write a white paper to your boss about the need to correct a problem in your company.  That would be an internal white paper because you are a part of the company.

2. Describe what terms you might need to define or what concepts you might need to explain for a white paper of the type you mentioned in task #1 above.  For example, a white paper that gives cautions about moving to the cloud will have to define certain cloud terminology for its audience.  A white paper that describes a new method of training IT personnel will have to define certain terms used in IT now.  

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

How does the 80/20 rule relate to the usefulness of quick start guides?

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?

Below are the links to the resources provided by the instructor to help answer these question. I have also included a word document that gives more information on the questions. Thanks again.

https://bradley-nice.medium.com/what-is-a-quicksta…

https://idratherbewriting.com/2008/07/06/quick-ref…

https://clickhelp.com/clickhelp-technical-writing-…

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