Purpose and Description
At some point in your life, whether it be in your professional or personal life, you will be asked to provide an audience with instructions for completing a task. It could be teaching your teenager to drive, showing a substitute what to do when you are gone, or demonstrating how to use software to a group of colleagues. For this assignment, you will select a procedure and create original step-by-step instructions for completing it. Your instructions will be comprehensive, using major and minor steps and plenty of visuals to clearly explain to an audience how to complete the procedure.

The choice of topic for this assignment is up to you, though it should be something that’s relatively inexpensive and straightforward to complete. Some topic ideas include:

A recipe for a complex dish that requires multiple major steps or stages
An art or craft project
A step-by-step walkthrough for a software function or video game
A home improvement or small building project
Etc.
This instructions assignment will provide you the opportunity to:

Practice writing step-by-step instructions for human involvement in a process.
Analyze an audience to determine your rhetorical strategies.
Include effective visuals that partner with the text to provide the reader with effective directions.
Include effective tips, results, and safety information to supplement the action-oriented steps.
Expectations
An effective set of instructions will:

Include at least 5 major steps (each composed of multiple minor steps).
Employ imperative/command mood in the text to create action-oriented steps.
Integrate effective original visuals like photographs, screen captures, diagrams, or illustrations with the textual instructions (at least one visual per major step).
Demonstrate goodwill with the audience and use appropriate grammar, spelling, and mechanics.
Clearly state the audience youre addressing and why. Reflect the audiences needs through your chosen content, organization, style and delivery.
Be carefully designed and submitted as a PDF file.
The assignment rubric also provides detailed evaluation criteria for this assignment. Consult the rubric closely as you’re composing.