procedural writing

Procedural Writing Assignment Write up instructions or procedures for an action someone else is to perform. The action needs to be fairly specific, since the steps you write will need to be detailed. The procedures/instructions should contain or be influenced by the following characteristics: • • • • • • • • • effective order clarity details consideration of audience (Refer to discussion notes and the textbook about how to consider audience when writing about instructions/procedures.) readability motivating the reader to read the procedures/instructions making the big picture clear any other relevant characteristics that the book discussed graphics (optional) Topic You may choose what topic to write about; just keep in mind that it needs to be focused. Audience The audience for this assignment is very important, so I want you to include a note at the top of your paper that tells who the audience is. For example, if you are writing about how to start a certain computer graphics program, you might tell me that the person using this program will be computer literate and will have operated similar graphics programs before. You will need to tell me generally what background information the audience may or may not know. Length Your paper should be no longer than 2 pages.