Paper Production Process

As you move through your academic and professional journey, you will be called upon to work with teams and colleagues to share your skills and to collaborate toward the completion of projects and requests. Therefore, the ability to objectively, clearly, and accurately communicate process steps to others is a critical and high-impact skill that is requested by employers. Mastering process writing will enable you to fully participate and articulate what may be needed for a successful outcome.

For this Discussion Board assignment, consider something that you have mastered and that you do frequently. Your choice can be something that you do for work, home, or fun. It can also be something that you do well as a volunteer for your community or civic organization. The choice and process steps of the activity that you choose to present must be original work. Use the rhetorical mode of the process analysis to conduct a process analysis of the steps one would need to follow to complete the activity.

Prewriting before posting your process analysis papers should focus on identifying the steps or stages in the process and putting them in logical order. Remember that the steps should also be in chronological order. Create a post that provides the steps of your process for your classmates to successfully duplicate on their own. Your process must have at least 6 fully developed steps. Post your completed process steps. You may include still images to support written steps. Review your classmates’ process posts, and respond with evidence of an attempt to duplicate their process steps (See Figure 5.2 "Sample Process Analysis Writing" below from page 98).