Draft:Original research/How-to's

A How-to is a recipe or procedure of several steps to accomplish something.

Computers
It is common practice to write the phrase as "HOWTO" in the open-source community. This is consistent with the traditional naming scheme for technical documentation, such as FAQ and README. Another possible reason is that this makes it easier to find a how-to in search engines like Google as searching with the words "to" and "how" does not necessarily deliver relevant search results.

Theoretical how-tos
Def. a "brief informal description of how to accomplish a specific task" is called a how-to.

Def. "an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task" is called a how-to.

Hypotheses

 * 1) A "how-to" can describe the steps needed to wrap a package or build a space shuttle.