Writer's Guidelines: Process Analysis

1. Decide whether your process analysis is mainly directive or informative, and be appropriately consistent in using pronouns and other designations.

For directive process analysis, use the second person, addressing the reader as you. the you may be understood, even if it is not written.

For informative process analysis, use the first person, speaking as I or we, or the third person, speaking about the subject as he, she, it, or they, or by name.

2. Consider usinig these basic forms.

Directive.............................Informative

I. Prepararion....................I. Background
....A..........................................A
....B..........................................B

II Steps................................II Sequence
.....A..........................................A
.....B..........................................B
.....C..........................................C

3. Listinig is a useful prewriting activity for process analysis. Begin with the romannumeral headings indicated in number 2.

4. The order of a process analysis will usually be chronological (time based) in some sense. Certain transitional words are commonly used to promote coherence: first, seond, third, then, soon, now, next, finally, at last, therefore, and consequently.

Source: Brandon, Lee. Brandon, Kelly. Paragraphs and Essays