What are Instructions?

What is the purpose of instructions?

To sell things

To tell people how to do something

To persuade people to do something

Which of these is not a set of instructions?

A recipe

Directions from one place to another

A horror story

Which of these is a set of instructions?

A leaflet asking people to join a campaign against litter

A leaflet telling people about a new restaurant and the food it sells

A leaflet included with a model showing you how to build it

Well-written instructions should do what?

Tell, or show, the reader what they are building

Make the reader laugh

give the reader lots to read

What are ingredients?

Small screws used for putting things together

A price list showing you how much something will cost to make

a list of the things you'll need when following a recipe

It's important to do what when writing instructions?

Show the end result and let the reader work out the steps

list the right steps in the right order

list the right steps in any order

What style of language should good instructions be written in?

Atmospheric, descriptive writing

Confident, direct writing

exciting, action-packed writing

Why are diagrams useful in instructions?

They give the reader lots of information

They make the instructions look nice

They fill out lots of space

Where necessary, diagrams in instructions should always be what?

Bright and colourful so they catch the reader's eye

In black and white so they don't distract the reader

Clearly labelled so readers can see what's what

It's a good idea to do what when you have written a set of instructions?

re-read them to make sure they are funny enough

ask a friend to try following them to see if they work

go back and take half the steps out to make them easier to follow

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