Type of process analysis paragraphs

A process paragraph is a series of steps that explain how something happens or how to make
something or to give instructions on howto do something or to describe how something is
done. There are two basictypes of process writing:

Instructional/directional process:

When you explain how to do something step-by-step; directions for completing work (to make
something) or any other how to topic, your purpose is how to enable your readers to perform
the process themselves. Giving instructions or directions is often done in point form: Examples:
recipes, model kits, sewing patterns, or the instructions that come with a child’s toy.

When writing a directional analysis, your audience is probably new to your process. You will
have to describe the process in simple yet clear details, so that your reader does not make a
mistake

Instructions are usually written in the second person (you) and include.

Informational process:

This type of process analysis describes how something is done or is made, or worked. In
explaining how hamburger get from the farm to table, how snow flack, how the stoke market
operates; you don’t expect your readers to be able to reproduce the process. Your purpose
issimply to inform them about it.

Examples: how to make a relationship that lasts; how to lose a guy in 10 days; how to be happy
in life. Textbook example = how a zamboni works.

Process Analysis – explains how something is made or done.

 
Directional Process Analysis – gives the steps in a process that the reader can perform if he or
she wants to. 

Informational Process Analysis: explains how something is made or done, but the reader is not
likely to perform the process.