Instruction Sets—Planning Worksheet
Instruction Sets—Rhetorical Analysis
Name:Weiguo Liu
1. What is the topic for your instructions? That is, what tasks will you be teaching readers how to perform?
I want to write an instruction about an action. This action will direct the reader to replace a brake pad of a vehicle.
2. Who is the audience for this set of instructions? Describe your audience in as much detail as possible as it relates to your topic and your instruction manual. For example, you might want to describe the audience members in terms of the following characteristics:
• their attitudes toward the topic
• their interest in, motivation for, or need for learning to perform the activity
• their previous experiences with the topic
• related activities they may already have learned how to perform
• their familiarity (or lack of familiarity) with key terms, key products, processes, instruments, or software programs.
My audience will be the ones who hold a car and do want to save money on his brake. I believe this audience is a large group. To remove old pads by new ones will cost several hundreds. It costs only less than a hundred bucks if you do it on your own. Most of the owner will be interested in how to replace it. Especially, the owner who has the experience that he replaced brake pad in an auto repair workhouse will have great intent to know how to replace it. Before reading this instruction, my audiences do not need to know any specific issue about the process. What they need to do is reading the instruction and following the steps.
3. Given the audience description that you just created, explain the supplementary information you'll need to include with these instructions (e.g., definitions, technical descriptions, comparisons to other activities or products, explanations about why or when to perform the activity).
Before the instruction, an introduction of what is the brake pad should be presented to give a general idea about the function of these pads. When the replacement of the brake pad is necessary is also important to my readers. This will ensure my reader to replace the pad only when there is a necessary.
4. Where will your readers likely be reading your instruction manual, and how will they be using it? For example, your audience members might be reading your instruction manual while sitting at their computers, with your manual open at their sides while they move back and forth between your manual and their computer screens.
I think the perfect place will be auto part stores. When the audiences drop in the stores and they will find this interesting instruction. Almost all of the pad providers do not provide instruction about how to replace them. My audiences will use this guideline in their actual replacement.
5. Reflect on your response to the previous set of questions—how should or how might this context affect the document design and document packaging decisions that you make for your instruction set?
As I provided in the previous answers, my plan is organizing this instruction in the reader’s logic, that is what it is, when to replace it and how to replace it. This is the vital part in writing that always thinks my readers.
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