The phrase "a guiding document" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a document that provides guidance or direction on a particular topic. For example, "The company followed the instructions outlined in the guiding document to determine the best course of action for the project."
We came up with a guiding document that crystalized our key challenges for the following year, and we were able to communicate that to the team at large.
In October 2011, as Mitt Romney prepared to win the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign prepared a guiding document outlining what to expect from Romney as commander-in-chief.
The ones they articulated, such as "energy" and "passion," eventually became part of "The Volvo Way," a guiding document addressing culture, values, and desired behaviors used in hiring and promotion decisions throughout the Volvo Group.
The paper will be a guiding document for policy makers, power and energy engineers as well as for researchers working in this area for providing solution to the problem of burgeoning gap between demand and supply of energy.
This plan applies to the main GSE campus buildings -- Graduate School of Education building, the Center for Educational Research CERASS), and Barnum, and is a guiding document for additional GSE buildings in Littlefield, Wallenberg, and Ventura.
Since the definition of inquiry has been appropriated into the Singapore Primary Science Syllabus, a guiding document for science teachers to abide by, EQUIP can be used to guide teachers' discussions and analyses of inquiry-based instruction in this study.
After all, the product roadmap is a critical guiding document for many businesses.
The effort culminated with the adoption of an ambitious guiding document in 2010 that calls for the area to be largely rebuilt.
With the festival leadership finally in place and stable, they collectively created their first strategic plan, and the company headed into its 81st season with an 82-page guiding document.
Not only because, as Democratic activist Paul Yandura points out, it's "another small step forward, since the platform is a non-binding, non-enforceable guiding document".
Just three years later, in 1996, a Princeton professor would issue the guiding document for politicians looking to strengthen juvenile sentences – the theory of the juvenile "superpredator".
