This document provides instructions for writing a process analysis essay. It explains that a process analysis essay breaks a series of actions down into stages and steps using chronological organization. There are two types: a directive process essay which explains how to do something using second person, and an informative process essay which explains how something works or occurs using third person. The document outlines the key components of a process analysis essay, including introducing the process, breaking it into major stages with multiple steps for each stage, anticipating questions, using present tense, and restating the purpose in the conclusion. It also provides examples of possible process analysis essay topics.

1. Process Analysis Essay Break it down for us.

2. 1 – 2 – 3 - GO! Process = A series of actions

3. Breaking up is hard to do. Analysis = A separation of a whole into its parts

4. Process analysis Breaks a series of actions into stages and steps. Uses chronological organization. Indicates the reason for the analysis. Explains the how and the why of actions in the process.

5. Directive process Informative process Two types of process analysis essays

6. Directive process How-To Emphasis on doing Includes tools & supplies required. Includes definitions, cautions & warnings. Uses 2nd person.

8. How trees lose their leaves

9. How a faucet works.

10. More analytical than a how-to essay.

12. Multiple steps for each stage. A stage with many steps may need more than one paragraph. Then break each stage into steps

13. How could a reader do this wrong? What are possible hazards or dangers? For directive process

14. When will your readers ask “Why?” Anticipate and explain the reasons behind how an action is done or how it happens.

15. Visualize it in the now. Describe it in the now. Write in the present tense.

16. 1. In the introduction and conclusion -– the frame. 2. In cautions -- “If you do x, then y could/will happen.” Exceptions?

17. Introduction Why should we be curious to learn about this process? Why should we care enough to keep reading? What exactly will you explain to us? Why is this process significant?

18. Conclusion No summary of steps is required. Reiterate your purpose. Create a frame by echoing something in the introduction – repeating a key phrase, completing an anecdote or answering a question, for example.

19. Things to consider What is a good topic?

20. What do you know about? Do you understand how something works?

21. Can you put a twist on something ordinary? Your topic does not have to be dazzling.

22. What do you know well? How to take great candid photos

23. How to play a casino gameHow to order at a restaurant

24. How wine is madeHow a microscope works

25. Do you know how to stop a baby’s crying?

26. Do you know how to win atApples to Apples?

27. Do you know how to find out where the best bands are playing around town?

28. Do you know how the retina works?

29. In your process analysis essay Break it down for us!

30. You are the expert No source but yourself Length: Title page + 2-3 pages, double-spaced, 12 point Arial or Times New Roman APA format Draft due for peer review next week