The writing assignment will be a technical description for a non-specialized audience. You will explain to a non-technical audience how something works.
You will choose an object or a process with which you are familiar. You will describe this object or process to an audience that has little or no background of the subject.
Keep in mind that you are not writing instructions on how to do something. You wrote instructions for writing assignment #1. If you describe a process, you cannot describe a process that involves direct human action.
For writing assignment #2, if you describe a process, you will describe an activity that takes place. You will describe how a phenomenon happens or how a mechanism works. For example, you could describe how the heart pumps blood in the human body. But you could not give
instructions on how to take someone's blood.
Your description should answer the following questions:
What is the object or process? How is it defined?
What does the object or process do?
What does the object or process look like?
What is the object made of? (if you are describing an object and not a process)
How does the object or process work?
Why should the reader be interested in your object or process?