CHAPTER 15 – PROCESS WRITING

Process writing is practical writing that answers the kinds of questions we face every day at home, in college, or on the job. Writing answers these types of question analyzes the process in which we’re interested, breaks it down into steps, and shows how the process works. The three basic forms of process writing include describing a process, explaining a process, and giving instructions. We choose one of these forms to carry out the process as breaking the process into specific steps and write about it. To write one of these forms, we must study the process until we understand to show how each steps leads logically to the next, and how all the steps together complete the process. We should decide what our writing should do and choose the form that fits our purpose and audience. Regardless of the form that we choose, we should make our writing accessible to all of the readers by addressing the reader who knows at least about the topic. If I talk about the guidelines about process writing first of all I should select a topic, then review the process to find issues that I need to research, then organize the information by adding reordering steps as needed after my research, then draft the documents by describing, explaining a process and writing instructions, then for all these we should revise the writing, then read the writing for organization and completeness by testing the writing, get feedback from classmates for clarity of writing, finally edit and publish the essay.