Document Development Exposition: Instructions

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

Planning
The planning helped me understand all the different audiences involved in the process and how it
effects the world. I enjoyed creating a company, which helped me channel my professionality for the
document. Like other assignments, I would start the planning sheet, and then come back to it at the
end. I found that I understood the planning sheet better after the assignment was completed. I
would reference back to the planning sheet often.

First Draft (for peer editing)

This was helpful because I was able to adjust my document firsthand from my peers. Instructions
written by yourself almost always make sense to you, so having others review it helped me simplify
instructions and make them clearer for the reader.

Second Draft (for your packet)

I had added more pictures, which didn’t necessarily match up with my steps the best. I should’ve
cropped the pictures and corresponded them with each step instead of having the whole picture
grouped at the top, making the reader/tester of instructions keep scrolling back to the top. I am not
exactly tech-savvy so cropping the pictures kind of scared me.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

I changed the heading, hopefully for the better. I brought in an orange title, where nothing else in
the document is orange, making it stand out. I simplified steps, making notes or tips as a bullet point
instead of a run on sentence. I took my own pictures, deleted the old one, and cropped them to be
coordinated with each step.