Directions! Design work continues
We divide the material into three sections:
- front matter,
- the heart of the directions (numbered, ordered commands), and
- back matter.
Directions, like the resume, rely on "document design." The way we arrange the material for the audience, context, and purpose is as important as the content.
Audience/Context/Purpose -- essential aspects of all documents. In designing directions or procedures documents, think of the audience as a user more than areader.
Sample of a directions document: Surviving a Cougar Attack.
Let's talk about recipes. Bones of the Dead (Osse de Mort). What about visuals? And, this website for publishing science procedure videos: JoVE.
Questions for class discussion:
- How do we build trust in writing directions?
- Sources?
- Copyright?
- Plagiarism?
- Reverse engineering? Intelligence reconstruction?
- Also, where on the web do directions live?
Marybeth Shea
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