The phrase "a sort of guide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves as a reference or direction, but is not a formal or complete guide.
Example: "This document is a sort of guide to help you navigate the new software features."
Alternatives: "a kind of manual" or "a type of reference".
It was more than a book; it was a sort of guide and creed for me.
We had inspirational lectures on philosophy: a sort of guide to the main thinkers in politics, psychology and sociology.
Recently, I've been using the morning to work on a book I'm currently writing, a sort of guide to help the non-medical person understand what makes good surgery.
The German writer Gregor Hens, who was to accompany me and act as a sort of guide, emailed me in advance: "I'm not an expert on architecture or Berlin".
One of them was the coach of a boy I had been following, Dylan Donaten Nieuwenhuys, a slightly built, soft-featured 15-year-old who began at Ajax when he was 7. Dylan's father, Urvin Rooi, served as a sort of guide for me.
Torc can act as a sort of "guide" helping players new to the space navigate the hype that is omnipresent in autonomous driving tech, Fleming says.
The crucial idea that emerged from that period of intense questioning was that of brahman, the ultimate reality and also a sort of guiding principle.
Hall was online early enough to get first dibs on the coveted www.links.net URL, and his website began as a sort of guided tour of the internet.
If the word tries to refer to what we currently have, a sort of guided Muzak with three looped tunes, then I feel not.
On a recent day in the library Ms. Chu gave a sort of guided tour of the personality known as Bucky, rummaging through boxes of his letters, overdue bills, drawings and writings.
It's about her impressions and her ideas, like a sort of guided meditation through Wonderland as Carroll wrote it – to see what her reactions are, and look at the darkness and the light.
