RE: handbook vs training manual

["Karen Murri" <kmurri -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Ask your client. How they intend it to be used will dictate how you
structure it. At my last job, we wrote several "training manuals" for a
client. They called them training manuals and they used them for training,
but that's where the resemblance to training ended. What we produced was
really reference documentation, and it was exactly what they wanted.

-Karen 

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Ram Dak
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:50 AM
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Subject: handbook vs training manual

I have been asked by a nonprofit to develop a handbook on community
sanitation systems in rural and urban areas. By reading and following the
book, a nonprofit worker is supposed to be able to understand the subject,
set up a community sanitaiton system and also maintain it.

I have only dabbled in technical writing, but this seems more like a
training manual than a handbook. It also has multiple audiences in mind -
nonprofit executive staff, nonprofit workers, government staff- and will
include procedural, conceptual, reference and instructional types of
information.

Am I correct in thinking this is more of a training manual? And will I be
better off approaching this from the instructional design angle, with
learning objectives etc?

I would very much appreciate any insights that experienced writers could
give.

Thanks in advance,
Ramdak
 		
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