These two projects are quite different in both focus and content. In the end, however, the content and style of your project, whether it is a manual or report, will depend on the contexts involved with the organization for which you are working and the audience for which the project is intended. Manuals Reports Manuals Manuals come in a variety of different forms, but on the most general level all manuals educate their readers to some degree. The level of education and information provided by a manual may be highly technical or very general depending on the manual's intended audience.
User manuals provide information and instruction in the use of a product, program, or service.
User manuals include information useful to a variety of audiences. The information included is often highly general, but the length of a user manual will often dictate the depth of information included. On the whole, however, user manuals should provide all information relevant to the product, program or service. Tutorials Tutorials serve to walk novice audiences through the operation of a product, system, or program. Tutorials generally instruct their audiences through the use of lessons, sample projects, or examples.