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Knowledge Synthesis · For field practitioners

Guidebook

What a guidebook from Fuse looks like: a reference tool people take to the field and open again and again.

1 · The structure

How the document is organized

The sections of a typical guidebook, with their usual length. Each project adapts them to its question and its readers.

  1. How to use this guideWho it is for, and how to find the right page fast.
    ~1 p.
  2. Background in briefThe science, in the few pages a practitioner needs.
    ~2 p.
  3. Step-by-step methodNumbered steps, each on its own spread.
    ~8 p.
  4. Identification sheetsOne sheet per site type, species or condition.
    ~8 p.
  5. Decision tablesIf you see this, do that.
    ~3 p.
  6. Glossary and resourcesTerms, contacts and further reading.
    ~2 p.
2 · Extracts

What the pages look like

Sample page layouts: mock-ups, not extracts from a completed project. The grey lines stand for text.

A step

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A step

An identification sheet

Looks like
Found where
What to do
An identification sheet

A decision table

If you seeThen
→
→
→
→
A decision table
3 · The final product

What you receive

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