Assignment Details

Description:  Use process analysis to teach your audience how to do one of the step-by-step processes listed below. In addition to choosing a topic that aligns with your pathway/career field, I would strongly urge you to select a process that you feel you are uniquely qualified to teach.  In other words, keep the focus on your own expertise and experience.  Explain the process one step at a time, and be sure to provide your reader with enough detail to make each step clear. (Note: Although you will be explaining the steps of a process, do not write your essay as a numbered list. You must compose your essay in the traditional paragraph structure.)IMPORTANT: A successful process analysis essay should go beyond simply explaining how to do the particular process; it must also make an argument that reinforces WHY or HOW the reader might benefit from knowing how to do these steps. Also, consider how your writing will respond and adapt to a variety of potential audiences, who will have differentiated knowledge levels and experiences.

Note that for this assignment, you are not allowed to use any outside research sources (as we have not yet learned how to properly credit those). Instead, this process analysis essay is to be developed solely based on your own understanding and thoughtful analysis of the topic. Any use of research sources could result in plagiarism, which would lead to failure.

• Note that all writing assignments in this course are processed through TurnItIn, which produces a report for your instructor to verify the originality of the submitted work. Please do not make the mistake of plagiarizing, as the consequences are severe.

Requirements:  Your essay should be a minimum of at least 5 paragraphs and 500 words, typed and double-spaced.  Use Times New Roman font in 12-pt size and 1-inch margins.  Format your paper according to .

Assessment:  Your grade will derive from your abilities to describe successfully the process of your choosing using a variety of specific details and examples, to argue a clear claim/thesis, and to organize your thoughts in an effective, chronological manner to help your reader clearly understand your argument. Consult the  for a detailed list of the criteria that comprise A, B, C, D, and F essays.

Peer Reviews:  When you bring in your typed rough draft on the day of peer review, you will trade your essay with a classmate so that you can both read each others work and provide helpful, constructive criticism to one another.  In addition, you will have a worksheet to help guide you through the peer review process.  Once you and your classmate have finished, you will share these completed worksheets with each other to guide discussion of each other’s drafts.

If you are unable to attend class on the day set aside for peer reviews or attend class without a completed draft, you will earn a 0% on that graded peer review activity.