Document Development Exposition: Instructions and Usability Test Script

Explain in detail your document’s development from planning to finish, describing your
challenges, how you overcame them, and what you learned.

Planning
Read and understand the requirements of the assignment
Collect and read some articles before choosing a topic
Choose a writing topic
Write some ideas for the topic
Develop detailed content based on ideas
Find some pictures to illustrate

First Draft (for peer editing)

After I finished writing the first draft, I posted it on the discussion board, and the class
members would review it for me. I also reviewed some of your manuscripts in class and
wrote some personal comments on yours.

Second Draft (for your packet)

I have re-edited the content based on feedback from some of my classmates. Some feedback
from my classmates helped me to correct some inappropriate places and finish the article
quickly.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

Based on the professor's feedback to edit. Because my post did not have many errors, it took
me a little time to edit. The editing part mainly focuses on beautiful text formatting, for
example, aligning images and text for easy presenting, or numbering for step-by-step
instructions.
There are some difficulties in doing this packet because I did not understand some formatting
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requirements. Therefore it took me time to review and correct the professor's requirements.
Learned some formatting in writing user guides, for example, presenting easy-to-read text,
showing an image with a red border to focus the reader's attention.