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2. Step 1: Analyze Your Audience and Purpose

What will your reader expect?

3. Step 1: Analyze Your Audience and Purpose

Will you need to create different instructions for different audiences?

4. Step 1: Analyze Your Audience and Purpose

Will your reader be anxious about the information?

5. Step 1: Analyze Your Audience and Purpose

Will the environment affect the design?

6. Step 2: Plan for Safety

Write safety information in SIMPLE SENTENCES.

NO:It is required that safety glasses be worn when inside this laboratory.

Yes :Wear safety goggles in this laboratory.

Yes : Safety Goggles Required.

7. Step 3: Use Signal Words

DANGER

For an immediate and serious hazard that will likely be fatal.

DANGER: EXTREMELY HIGH VOLTAGE.STAND BACK.

8. Step 3: Use Signal Words

WARNING

For the potential for serious injury or death or serious damage to equipment.

TO PREVENT SERIOUS INJURY, BE SURE THE ARM RESTRAINTS ARE IN PLACE BEFORE OPERATING THIS MACHINERY

9. Step 3: Use Signal Words

CAUTION

For anything from moderate injury to serious equipment damage or destruction.

Do not use rechargeable batteries in the charging unit they could damage the charging unit.

10. Step 3: Use Signal Words

Note:

For tips or suggestions to help readers carry out procedures successfully.

Note: Locking washers and regular washers are provided be sure to use the locking washers here.

11. Step 4: Draft Your Title

How to

• How to Construct a Lego Space Ship.

Gerund

• Constructing a Lego Space Ship

• Note : Avoid Long Noun Phrases

• Lego Space Ship Construction Instructions

12. Step 5: Draft Your Introduction

Who should carry out this task?

Why? (benefits)

When?

What general safety or operating tips should the reader know before beginning?

What items will the reader need?

How long should the task take?

13. Step 6: Draft Your Step-by-Step Instructions Note: The steps are the most important part of the instruction set.Every extra caution should be taken here to be clear and effective. 14. Step 6.1: Number the Steps

Although bullets are used for similar items in a list,numbersshould be used when a sequence of events is required.

For long, complex instructions, use two level numbering:

Step 1

• Step 1.1

• Step 1.2

15. Step 6.2: Present the right amount of information in each step.

Danger:Too much information!

• Mix one part cement with one part water, using a trowel. When the mixture is a thick consistency without any lumps bigger than a marble, place a strip of the mixture about 1 high and 1 wide along the face of the brick.

• Danger : Too Little Information!

• Pick up a trowel.

16. Step 6.2: Present the right amount of information in each step.

• Just right:

• Mix one part cement with one part water, using the trowel, until the mixture is a thick consistency.

• Place a strip of the mixture about 1 high and 1 wide along the fact of the brick.

17. Step 6.3: Use the Imperative Mood

Yes:Use the imperative mood

No:The imperative mood should be used

18. Step 6.4:Use StepsandFeedback Statements (and dont confuse the two!)

A Step:

Complete the Instruction Set Assignment.

A Feedback Statement:

You are now nearly done with English 202C.

Use different formatting to distinguish the two.

19. Step 6.5: Use Graphics and Clear Language

Consider using visuals for nearly every step.

Avoid a cluttered document.

Align your graphics with the corresponding text.

Dont omit articles (a, an, the) to save space.

20. 21. Step 7: Write Your Conclusion

Tell the reader he/she is done.

Tell the reader what he/she should do next.

Include maintenance and/or troubleshooting tips, if applicable.