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PROCESS ANALYSIS:

PROCESS ANALYSIS:. Instructions and Explanations. INSTRUCTIONS tells us how to do something: How to start up your new laptop How to make America a better nation How to ruin your high school career in ten easy steps

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PROCESS ANALYSIS:

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  1. PROCESS ANALYSIS: Instructions and Explanations

  2. INSTRUCTIONS tells us how to do something: • How to start up your new laptop • How to make America a better nation • How to ruin your high school career in ten easy steps • Instructions provide detailed justification for individual steps or for the plan as a whole • Good instructions show an awareness of readers’ background knowledge and abilities Instructions

  3. Explanations explain the stages of a wide variety of operations or actions, of mental or evolutionary process: • How stress affects judgment and health • How volcanoes cause earthquakes and mudslides • How your cell phone works • Good explanations take into account the things readers want or need to know about, but they can also appeal to curiosity and imagination. • You can speculate how space exploration might work or how societies might be better organized. Explanations:

  4. To achieve unity in process analysis writing, certain words help to identify different stages: • Step, event, element, component, phase, state, feature, occurrence Achieving Unity in Process Analysis:

  5. To achieve unity in process analysis writing, certain words help to emphasize relationships in time: • After, next, while, first, second, third, fourth, concurrently, the next week, later, preceding, following, etc. Achieving Unity in Process Analysis:

  6. To achieve unity in process analysis writing, certain words help indicate changes: • Becomes, varies, transforms, causes, completes, alters, revises, uncovers, synthesizes , cures, builds Achieving Unity in Process Analysis:

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