Informal instructional essay
We've been working with more informal instructional documents in your groups so far-now we want to get into something more "technical" in nature. This assignment will require you to create a set of instructions on how to use some sort of "technology" (or a "How-to" if you will). This genre of technical documents will require you to 1) describe a process, 2) write for an unfamiliar user, 2) use visuals to supplement the text, and 3) follow appropriate HATS and CRAP guidelines.
Your first step will be to choose the technology: what you choose is up to you! Some examples students have chosen in the past have included:
How-to use Photoshop
How to use InDesign
How to use Skype
How to create a simple web page using wordpress
The possibilities are vast, but this will require you clearing your instructions with me ahead of time (which I will post as a discussion topic). Seeing as each document will require different steps there can be no page or visual count, however this does NOT mean that you can just slap a bare minimum of content just to get it over with. Formatting is up to you, but I would suggest you follow the examples provided in Chapter 7 of your textbook.