A Rubric for Judging a How-to Blog Post

Many blog posts that we write teach or explain how to do something. These questions form a nice rubric or checklist for making sure a how-to post is solidly written.

How-to Checklist

• Is there a clear purpose for the topic?
• Does the post provide information that complete and sufficiently detailed?
• Can the reader identify in the introduction what the post will teach?
• Are the steps in the order they will be completed?
• Did the post summarize what was taught?
• Do tone and voice sound confident and supportive in stating the directions?
• Are the sentences clear and concise?
• Does the summary give readers a reason to want to try to do what the post is teaching?

Keep this checklist handy and you won’t miss a step in writing your how-to post.

Liz Strauss