The phrase "a kind of instructions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific type or category of instructions that may not be fully defined or are somewhat vague.
Example: "The manual provided a kind of instructions that were difficult to follow, leaving many users confused."
Alternatives: "a type of guidance" or "a form of directions".
The posters are a kind of instruction art.
Interpreters make a mistake when they see written music as a kind of instruction book.
But it is, more tellingly, a kind of instruction manual about ways of thinking about these histories.
By translating Schweidler's book – a kind of instruction manual – Perkinson hopes to make conservators, curators, and collectors better equipped to spot alterations.
This may have seemed like a tenuous basis for divining Amy's mental state on the day of the shooting, but investigators wondered if Amy had seen the article as a kind of instruction manual.
"The Last Days of Disco," which contains a few gentle references to cocaine and chlamydia, was rated R — a problem, since Stillman intended it as "a kind of instruction manual" for girls of his daughters' generation, then in their early teens.
To me, Cair Dhòmhnaill is a kind of instruction to focus on a far more distant history, like one slice of a many-banded core sample pulled from the earth, which has an arguable usefulness, and may very well be false.
It seems to me that The Alternative, for Nora, was that she could write her own death or her own dying -plus she could enlist others (beyond her tart, smart books and her unforgettable films) to continue writing it, writing HER, anecdotally, when she was gone, following a kind of instruction manual, almost a recipe: How to Go Out with Class, with Style.
As for our second puzzle this week — the following appears on a MoMath tiled wall without any kind of instructions.
Are you going to issue any kind of instructions to the Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Clapper, and say, "I want you to change it at least in this way"?
For starters, the company will provide a kind of software instruction booklet for littleBits' kits, including a trio of new ones due out this fall.
