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Writing A Procedure

Writing a Procedure

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Writing for a Purpose: Using Templates

When students can get the “picture” of a form of writing in their heads, they feel more confident about
creating the final product. A template or framework is a skeletal structure for a writing form that allows
students to organize their thoughts and researched information in order to write a first draft. Essay maps
are another type of template.

Purpose
• Provide students with a template to scaffold their understanding of a form of writing and help
them organize information before drafting the piece.

Payoff
Students will:
• learn the common expectations for the form and components of a particular writing assignment.
• organize their writing and ensure that it meets the requirements of the assignment.

Writing a Procedure
What is a procedure?
A procedure is a form of writing that informs the reader about how to do something. A procedure gives
detailed instructions that the reader should be able to translate into action. Procedures could be written in
science class to outline the steps taken in an experiment, or as a step-by-step explanation about how to
play a game created in response to a language activity.

In a procedure, you can do the following:


• Begin by identifying the topic or issue and the relevance or importance of knowing how to do the thing
that is being explained. For example, writing a procedure for programming a DVR will help you make
full use of the various features your DVR offers.
• Proceed by identifying the intent or goal of the procedure. What is it that will be accomplished if the
reader follows the steps identified?
• Make a prediction or create a hypothesis about what will happen if the steps are followed.
• Identify any equipment or materials you will need in order to complete the procedure.
• Write step-by-step instructions related to the procedure. Write in time sequence and provide as
much detail as the reader will need to be able to follow the instructions and actually do what it is you are
describing.
• Let your readers know how they will know if they have been successful.

How do you write a procedure?


1. Use an organizer such as a flow chart to plan the sequence you will describe. Make a list of the
equipment or materials you will need.
2. When writing your instructions, think of who your audience might be. The age and interests of the
audience will determine your tone and choice of language. For example, if you are writing
instructions for building a cabinet for a carpenter, they would be very different from instructions
you would write if the reader had never built anything before.
3. In your conclusion, provide your readers with an indication of how they will know whether or not they
have been successful.
Tasks:
1. Use the Template to deconstruct the 2 paragraphs provided.
2. Write a Procedure paragraph.

Template for Deconstructing a Procedure


Paragraph
Topic: __________________________________________________________

Introduction:
• Topic/issue
• Relevance/importance/real-world connections

Aim/Goal (be brief - one sentence):


• What do you intend to do?
• What will you accomplish?

Hypothesis: A suggested answer or reason why one variable affects another in


a certain way – useful for scientific investigations. You make a prediction based
on past observations, logic, and some elements of scientific theory.

Materials/Equipment/Ingredients:
What do you need to perform this task?

Procedure/Method:
What steps must you follow? What is the appropriate order for these steps?

Analysis/Confirmation/Testing:
Did your process work? What did you learn from your procedure?
Samples of process paragraphs:

(1) The writing process has four distinct phases. (2) The first is invention, which is aided by any
number of techniques, including free-writing, mind-mapping and outlining. (3) In this first stage,
it’s important for a writer not to edit but to let ideas flow and to simply get them down on paper.
(4) After invention, comes the first draft—the stage where the ideas start to take shape. (5)
Many writers use a sentence outline at this stage to see where they need to cut and where they
need to add material. The first draft is also where writers should develop a tentative thesis to
guide the structure of their essay. (6) The next stage of the process is when both the second
and third drafts are done. (7) Here, ideas and structure are refined, and the thesis is revised
until it becomes the unifying idea of the paper. (8) Finally, comes the last stage, that of editing.
(9) Writers should take care at this stage that all sentence structure and punctuation is correct,
and they should make corrections to documentation format as needed. (10) Writers often repeat
these four phases more than once, or skip a phase and go back to it, making the writing process
more cyclical than linear.

My Most Favorite Dish, You Can Make It Too

Today we are going to be making chicken primavera. Before you get started you will need the
following things: two or more skinless, boneless chicken breasts; two cans of Cream of
Mushroom soup; two cans of Cream of Chicken soup; milk; butter; vegetable oil, spaghetti
noodles (or any noodle of your choice); and finally, one very large sized frying pan. First you
want to start the water and about 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil boiling for the noodles (they take
the longest), and then while you have that going, start dicing you chicken breast into about 1-
inch cubes. After you get all of your chicken cut up you want to start heating up your pan.
Always start on high heat and then once the ingredients are added the heat will get turned
down. Once your frying pan is hot put 1 tablespoon of butter into the frying pan, let that melt a
little bit, and then add your chicken. You want to make sure that the chicken is browned on all
sides, and if you were to cut a cube in half that the middle is white. Any time while you are
cooking you chicken, if the water is boiling, then you can start boiling you noodles. When your
chicken is done all the way through then we make the sauce. Right there in the same pan that
you cooked you chicken in, add your two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup and your two cans
of Cream of Chicken soup. After dumping the soup into the pan, you will then need to guess on
the amount of milk that you put into the sauce. The more milk that is added the thinner the
sauce will be, and the less milk that is added will give you a nicer creamier sauce. It depends on
how thick or thin you like your sauces. Make sure to keep stirring the noodles throughout their
cooking process, or they will all be stuck together. While finishing cooking the noodles turn the
heat down on the sauce so that all it is going to do is warm up. You don’t want the sauce to boil
or else it will take longer to thicken up even if the amount of milk was small. It only takes about
3-5 minutes for the sauce to warm all the way through. Once the noodles are done then you can
strain the water off of them. Add about 1 tablespoon of butter to the drained noodles and stir
them really good to get that butter mixed in, this will keep the noodles from sticking together
until they can be served. Finally, all you need to do now is dish up your plate of chicken
primavera and enjoy. This recipe will feed between 8-10 people in one sitting. If you need to
make more than that, just double the recipe and follow the same instructions. I hope that this
meal was as quick, easy, and delicious for you as it was for me.

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