diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/match.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/match.scrbl
index 2918045db4..7025ba9f1a 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/match.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/match.scrbl
@@ -119,6 +119,22 @@ pattern variables can be bound to lists of lists of matches:
   [(list (list '! x ...) ...) x])
 ]
 
+
+The @racket[quasiquote] form  (see @secref["qq"] for more about it) can also be used to build patterns.
+While unquoted portions of a normal quasiquoted form mean regular racket evaluation, here unquoted
+portions mean go back to regular pattern matching.
+
+So, in the example below, the with expression is the pattern and it gets rewritten into the
+application expression, using quasiquote as a pattern in the first instance and quasiquote
+to build an expression in the second.
+
+@interaction[
+#:eval match-eval
+(match `{with {x 1} {+ x 1}}
+  [`{with {,id ,rhs} ,body}
+   `{{lambda {,id} ,body} ,rhs}])
+]
+
 For information on many more pattern forms, see @racketmodname[racket/match].
 
 Forms like @racket[match-let] and @racket[match-lambda] support
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/qq.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/qq.scrbl
index f9fa41dc49..30b674f2ff 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/qq.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/qq.scrbl
@@ -24,6 +24,63 @@ evaluated to produce a value that takes the place of the
            `(1 2 ,(+ 1 2), (- 5 1)))
 ]
 
+This form can be used to write functions that build lists according to
+certain patterns.
+
+@examples[
+(eval:alts (define (deep n)
+             (cond
+               [(zero? n) 0]
+               [else
+                (#,qq ((#,uq n) (#,uq (deep (- n 1)))))]))
+           (define (deep n)
+             (cond
+               [(zero? n) 0]
+               [else
+                (quasiquote ((unquote n) (unquote (deep (- n 1)))))])))
+(deep 8)
+]
+
+Or even to cheaply construct expressions programmatically. (Of course, 9 times out of 10,
+you should be using a @seclink["macros"]{macro} to do this 
+(the 10th time being when you're working through
+a textbook like @hyperlink["http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/"]{PLAI}).)
+
+@examples[(define (build-exp n)
+            (add-lets n (make-sum n)))
+          
+          (eval:alts
+           (define (add-lets n body)
+             (cond
+               [(zero? n) body]
+               [else
+                (#,qq 
+                 (let ([(#,uq (n->var n)) (#,uq n)])
+                   (#,uq (add-lets (- n 1) body))))]))
+           (define (add-lets n body)
+             (cond
+               [(zero? n) body]
+               [else
+                (quasiquote 
+                 (let ([(unquote (n->var n)) (unquote n)])
+                   (unquote (add-lets (- n 1) body))))])))
+          
+          (eval:alts
+           (define (make-sum n)
+             (cond
+               [(= n 1) (n->var 1)]
+               [else
+                (#,qq (+ (#,uq (n->var n))
+                         (#,uq (make-sum (- n 1)))))]))
+           (define (make-sum n)
+             (cond
+               [(= n 1) (n->var 1)]
+               [else
+                (quasiquote (+ (unquote (n->var n))
+                               (unquote (make-sum (- n 1)))))])))
+          (define (n->var n) (string->symbol (format "x~a" n)))
+          (build-exp 3)]
+
 The @racket[unquote-splicing] form is similar to @racket[unquote], but
 its @racket[_expr] must produce a list, and the
 @racket[unquote-splicing] form must appear in a context that produces
@@ -35,6 +92,46 @@ is spliced into the context of its use.
            `(1 2 ,@(list (+ 1 2) (- 5 1)) 5))
 ]
 
+Using splicing we can revise the construction of our example expressions above
+to have just a single @racket[let] expression and a single @racket[+] expression.
+
+@examples[(eval:alts
+           (define (build-exp n)
+             (add-lets 
+              n
+              (#,qq (+ (#,(racket unquote-splicing) 
+                        (build-list
+                         n
+                         (λ (x) (n->var (+ x 1)))))))))
+           (define (build-exp n)
+             (add-lets
+              n
+              (quasiquote (+ (unquote-splicing 
+                              (build-list 
+                               n
+                               (λ (x) (n->var (+ x 1))))))))))
+          (eval:alts
+           (define (add-lets n body)
+             (#,qq
+              (let (#,uq
+                    (build-list
+                     n
+                     (λ (n)
+                       (#,qq 
+                        [(#,uq (n->var (+ n 1))) (#,uq (+ n 1))]))))
+                (#,uq body))))
+           (define (add-lets n body)
+             (quasiquote
+              (let (unquote
+                    (build-list 
+                     n
+                     (λ (n) 
+                       (quasiquote
+                        [(unquote (n->var (+ n 1))) (unquote (+ n 1))]))))
+                (unquote body)))))
+          (define (n->var n) (string->symbol (format "x~a" n)))
+          (build-exp 3)]
+
 If a @racket[quasiquote] form appears within an enclosing
 @racket[quasiquote] form, then the inner @racket[quasiquote]
 effectively cancels one layer of @racket[unquote] and