The phrase "a manual about how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a guide or document that provides instructions or information on a specific process or topic.
Example: "The company published a manual about how to use the new software effectively."
Alternatives: "a guide on how" or "a handbook detailing how".
As far as everyone else is concerned I'd written a manual about how to make a Victorian sponge.
"If you look in a manual about how to write drama," Gregory Burke says, between rehearsals of his new play opening tonight in Edinburgh, the number one rule is probably not to begin with a 10-minute joke about Sartre".
I'm mentoring a couple of younger scientists now and writing up a manual about how this job is done.
Last year the IRS issued to its agents a manual about how to look for hobby losses, in which taxpayers improperly underwrite their fun and games activity say, butterfly collecting or bowling by labeling them as businesses and claiming a loss on a Schedule C for self-employment.
"There is really not a field manual about how to be a backup unit," Professor O'Donnell said.
As Bruce Benderson writes in his introduction, "The book is a collage of free-associated episodes and interpretatons that together compose for the reader a kind of manual about how to love.
Ramadan is only a few weeks out of the year, so you can afford to take it easy in terms of the intensity and volume of exercise you do for one month if you train well the rest of the year". Personal trainer Imran Ilahi owns a health club in St John's Wood, north London, and last year published Fit4Ramadan, an online fitness manual about how to stay in shape while fasting.
He has written two books: the first, "Goodbye Gordon Gekko," is part memoir, part self-help manual about "how to find your fortune without losing your soul"; the second, "The Little Book of Hedge Funds," is a primer on the investment vehicles that have made him rich.
So we had this idea that our contribution to this wave of energy would be to write this simple action manual about how to replicate some of the successes that we saw the Tea Party have in doing local, defensively-oriented congressional advocacy.
We also incorporated suggestions made by SMEs for simplifying the instructions given to IDUs in the manual about how to use the chips to indicate the importance of the different life areas.
What about a manual of "how to be a successful corporate rebel"?
