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The phrase "a kind of guide" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that serves as a reference or source of information, but is not a formal or traditional guide.
Example: "This book is a kind of guide for beginners looking to learn about photography."
Alternatives: "a type of guide" or "a sort of guide".
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I'm totally mistrustful of these impressions as a kind of guide to what a person is like.
A man who goes by Kawaun Adon Akhenaten7 — and would not provide another name — taught Mr. Marks 52 Blocks and acts as a kind of guide.
Merrill's angel is a kind of guide out of that purgatory and into a more cohesive understanding of the world of bodies.
The Giver Quartet is, in the end, less a speculative fiction than a kind of guide for teaching children (and their parents, if they're listening carefully) how to be a good person.
Witten, who has been instrumental in advancing string theory — a framework alternately praised and derided for its elegance — noted that elegance can be a kind of guide toward what is reasonable and plausible.
Underneath its hard shell of dirty talk and conspicuous consumption and boozing and attitude, it is family-friendly, a kind of guide through the trials of high school and bad parenting, an "S.A.T.s and the City".
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The result is a kind-of guided meditation, with a computer guru that is physically aware of precise brain states.
They provide a kind of guiding metaphor, in which parents are coaches and kids are athletes.
One other exception is by Andy Warhol, a kind of guiding spirit here.
Instead the question and answer session became a kind of guided, vocal trail of logic.
"The salamander system provides a kind of guiding principle of how regeneration can work," she says, "of how parts are put together".
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