PROCESS ANALYSIS ESSAYS

RVT

What is a Process Analysis?

Process analysis shows how to do something or how something happens by describing the steps or stages in the process. e.g. Simple Process: How to change the oil in the car e.g. Complex Process: How Congress passes a law

What is a Process Analysis?

Basically, there are two kinds of process analyses, and both are important. A directional process analysis gives the steps in a process that the reader can perform if he or she wants to. e.g. How to assemble a toy e.g. How to set up a tent e.g. How to jailbreak iOS devices

What is a Process Analysis?

An informational process analysis explains how something is made or done, but the reader is not likely to perform the process. e.g. How brain surgery is performed e.g. How plants manufacture chlorophyll

Selecting Details
Most of the detail in a process analysis will be the steps in the process, but you do not merely write out the steps in list fashion. Follow the guidelines: Include all important steps Explain how each step is performed Explain each step is performed Explain trouble spots and what not to do Explain necessary items and define unfamiliar terms Include examples and descriptions

1. Include all important steps

Omitting a step is a common pitfall. Your reader might not be able to perform a process properly.

2. Explain how each step is performed

To ensure that your reader performs a process successfully, you may need to explain how to perform one or more steps in a directional process analysis.

3. Explain why each step is performed

You may need to explain why a step in a process analysis is performed if you think your reader will fail to appreciate its importance and, perhaps, skip itor perform it carelessly.

4. Explain trouble spots and what not to do

If a step in a directional process analysis can prove troublesome, pointing out the possible problem can help the reader to avoid it. If you fear your reader could take unnecessary or incorrect actions, your directional process analysis can point out something that should not be done.

5. Mention necessary items and define unfamiliar terms

If your reader must assemble materials to perform the process, mention items that are needed early in your directional process analysis, so your reader can assemble them. If you use technical terms or other vocabulary unfamiliar to your reader, provide definitions.

6. Include examples and descriptions

To clarify an aspect of a process or help your reader appreciate its nature or significance, you may need to include examples and description.

Organizing a process analysis

To create interest, your introduction could: tell why understanding the process is important tell why you are qualified to explain a process arouse readers curiosity about how the process is performed or combine the aforementioned techniques

Organizing a process analysis

The thesis or topic sentence names the process that will be described or analyzed. Often the thesis contains an attitude or opinion about the process. Changing a tire is easy if you follow the right steps. You dont have to be Italian to make pasta carbonara. Anyone can fail a class if she tries hard enough. Bathing a dog doesnt have to be a miserable experience for either party

Organizing a process analysis

Arrange your details in chronological order when your reader needs the steps presented in the order they are performed. Transitions for process analysis are generally time and sequence markers. If you are explaining what should not be done, do so near the step the caution is related to. If your process analysis includes several statements of what not to do, you can group all the cautions together in their own paragraph.

Organizing a process analysis

If you must define a term, do so the first time the term is used. If you explain a troublesome aspect of the process, do so just after presenting the step under consideration. If you explain why a step is performed, do so just before or after your explanation of the step. If necessary materials are listed, group this information together in an early paragraph, perhaps even in the introduction.

THANK YOU. QUESTION???

Practice In Group, read the first sample essay and answer the following questions

1. What techniques does the writer use to introduce the topic? 2. What process is the writer describing? 3. How does the writer organize the information? 4. Make a list of the steps in the process. 5. What transition words did the writer use to achieve coherence? Underline them in the essay. 6. What audience do you think the writer had in mind when s/he wrote this essay? 7. Are there any precautions the writer provided?

 2. Explain any of the following processes to help first-year students at your school:

Practice In Group, choose one of the topics and write an essay.

how to register; how to select a major; how to meet people; how to study for an exam 3. Think of something you know how to make, and describe the process so that someone else can make it. 4. Explain a process that can save a life (CPR, first aid, the Heimlich maneuver, etc.). 5. Explain one of the following processes: how to survive adolescence how to buy the perfect gift how to plan the perfect party how to choose the right college

how to buy running shoes

how to buy a computer how to prepare for an interview