Just the other day, I had to read the manual. I’d borrowed my neighbor’s hammer drill to make some holes in a masonry wall, and I didn’t know how to swap the bits. Fortunately, the drill’s carrying ...

Instructions can be seen all around us in our daily lives. For example, on packets of food, in manuals or guidebooks, and even on the roads and streets outside. An instruction manual tells the reader ...

Some user manuals are a frustration, some are a pleasure – and all reveal more about us than we might think. Maybe you diligently read an instruction manual from cover to cover before you even turn on ...

Need the instruction guide for your laptop? Unless you’re one of those freakishly organized types, I’ll bet you have no idea where it is. Or even if you do, it probably involves a visit to the attic ...

Sometimes writing is used to tell us how to do things, like in an instruction, or a manual. This alien wants to build a deckchair, but every time she tries, she ends up making something different. So ...