Guidelines Flashcards
Whats the first step you must take?
- Identify your audience.
You may write SUB-HEADINGS to introduce your suggestions. These can take the form of statements or imperatives. Expand those ideas below, in the form of a paragraph.
- Address your readers throughout
- You may use a variety of sentence-types: exclamations, statements, questions.
- Sentences are usually CHRONOLOGICALLY ORDERED so the reader begins at the start of the process and finishes at the end.
- You may use BULLETS to present the information in a clear and simple way.
- You may use ADVICE PHRASES, e.g. ¨You´d better¨, ¨You should¨, and Conditional Sentences to express probability.
*Clear, simple writing
*A thorough understanding the procedure in all its technical detail
*Your ability to put yourself in the place of the reader, the person trying to use your instructions
*Your ability to visualize the procedure in great detail and to capture that awareness on paper
