RE: User's Guide or User Guide (was RE: Technical Writer or DocumentationWriter?)

["Jennifer C. Bennett" <jbennett -at- ceruleantech -dot- com>]

Perhaps something completely different works:  "Instruction Manual"?

Jennifer  


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> Subject: User's Guide or User Guide (was RE: Technical Writer 
> or DocumentationWriter?)
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> 
>   Is it a case of proper English---Microsoft (User's Guide)
>   or geekspeak---Adobe (User Guide)?
>    
>   Does it feel like proper English to use a person or a 
> person's trade  as an adjective?
>   Sure there are cookbooks and style guides, but these don't 
> feel right:
>   Mechanic Guide, Chauffeur Guide, Cook Guide, Employee Guide?
>    
>   Having the "a guide to..." understood, helps: 
>     [A] Mechanic's Guide [to...], and so on.
>    
>   A query on Amazon for "user+guide" lists both, with more 
> cases of User's Guide than the other.
>    
>   Thoughts?
>    
>   YJ
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