Process Writing in Engineering Integration Lesson Plan

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Process Writing in EngineeringIntegration Lesson
Plan

• Created by Nancy Warning
• Courses
• Engineering 3
• English Honors

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Process WritingExplains either how to do
something or how something happens.

• Consider your Audience
• Keep your audiences background knowledge in
  mind.
• Answer the following questions
• How much does my audience know about the process?
• How much detail are they likely to need?
• Which term, if any, will I need to define?

• Understand the Process
• To explain a process, the writer must first
  understand the steps involved in the process and
  then present these steps in order.
• Writing Tip effective instructions are
  straightforward, precise, and clearly organized.
  Obscure language or garbled logic can confuse
  your reader.

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Process Writing continued

• Follow the three steps below to write an essay
  that explains a process.
• 1. Prewriting Research by reading, watching
  others, or performing the process.
• 2. Drafting Arrange the steps of the process
  in chronological order. Break one step into two
  if more detail is needed. Omit unnecessary
  steps.
• 3. Revising Reread the explanation. Make
  sure youve included all necessary details and
  signaled separate steps with transition words.
  Reorder steps as necessary.

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Rubric
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English Honors students following the process
writing exercise.
Students are using a teach pendant to move the
robot to pick up a block.
Students are using a logic electrical trainer to
complete a logic circuit.