My topic is about making an instruction on how to take a slap shot (hockey). Below are the directions:
Instruction sets are common technical documents for many disciplines and occupations. Employees read instructions to learn how to assemble a product or complete a procedure. Supervisors write out company policies that oftentimes serve as instruction sets. Customers read instructions for using a product. For this assignment, you will develop a set of instructions that shows users how to perform a specific task.
Before deciding on a task, consider the following guidelines:
Choose something you are very familiar with. It can be something related to your field of study (e.g. how to use a particular piece of laboratory equipment), or something related to a more general audience (e.g. how to learn to juggle).
Ideally, your audience should be someone who has never performed this task before.
Your audience should have a general understanding of the topic area.
Choose a task with an appropriate level of difficultyâ€"neither too easy nor too hard to explain in the space allotted.
The task may involve a device: assembling it, operating it, or fixing it. Or it may involve some process (e.g., registering using eLion).
The process should have discrete parts or steps that are fairly easy to name and refer to.
Your task should be explained in at least 3 PAGES (single-spaced) of written instructions, including visuals.
Note that I need to approve all topics, in order to ensure that you have selected a topic of appropriate size and scope.
Topics
Your instructions should help users to perform a task that requires several steps or stages. Here are some topic ideas (don't be limited by them):
how to change the oil in your car
how to iron a shirt
how to add a component (hard drive, sound card, etc.) to your computer
how to groom a dog
how to reformat your hard drive (yikes!)
how to use an ATM card (include many options, not just how to withdraw and deposit)
how to cook a turkey
how to French braid your hair (or someone else's)