Document Development Exposition: Instructions and Usability Memo

ENGL 2116

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

Planning
Look for an organization.
To find an audience for the memo.
Find instructions that can only be done online.
Finding visual aid for steps of instruction.
Organizing instruction and using proper wordings.
Peer review of steps of instruction.

First Draft (for peer editing)

Usability testing.
Conducting survey regarding the testing.
Creating a script for the participant in testing.
Creating memo based on the results of usability test and questionaries’ asked to the participant.

Second Draft (for your packet)

Correcting grammar and wordiness in steps of instruction and memo.
Arranging pics related to the steps according to proper structure.
Creating a document with Final memo, steps of instruction before and after peer review and usability
test.

Final Draft (for your portfolio)

Correcting all the grammatical issues pointed out by professor.
Changing first word of each step of instruction to imperative verb.
Numbering all the steps properly.
Correcting introduction/summary.
Making changes with note, tip and caution.