To complete this exercise, review the following student-made instruction sets linked below. Rank the instruction sets 1-10 (1 being the most effective, 10 being the least effective) in a comment below. In the same comment, explain how you decided upon the order of your choices using concepts from The Thomson Handbook, Technical Communication Today, and/or the Instructor Blogs.
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class assignment
3 * Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
5 * Google Docs Instruction Manual
6 * eBay Instructions
8 * How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
10 * How to Tune Your Guitar
1 * Creme Brulee Made Easy
4 * How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
7 * Changing a Bike Tire
9 * Remington Model 870 Disassembly
2 * Preparing a Fillet
Rating Instructions
-3 Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
-5 Google Docs Instruction Manual
-1 eBay Instructions
-6 How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
-4 How to Tune Your Guitar
-7 Creme Brulee Made Easy
-8 How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
-9 Changing a Bike Tire
-10 Remington Model 870 Disassembly
-2 Preparing a Fillet
I rated these instructions on the medium used and how well it worked with the directions. Personally, I do not like long extensive directions with no pictures. The ones I rated highest had great pictures and discriptions. The ones I rated the lowest had few pictures or were hard to read.
Ranking Instructions
1. Google Docs Instruction Manual
2. How to Tune You Guitar
3. Creme Brulee Made Easy
4. Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
5. How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
6. Preparing a Fillet
7. Changing a Bike tire
8. How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
9. Remington Model 870 Disassembly
10. eBay Instructions
instruction rankings
1.creme brulee made easy
2.disk formatting
3. guitar tuning
4.changing tire
5. google docs
6.bowling
7.preparing a fillet
8. ebay
9. remington disassembly
10.outlook setup
I ranked these in order of image use, clarity, length, and how accurate and useful the images were
I don't know how to change a bike tire now...
1-How to Tune Your Guitar
2-Remington Model 870 Disassembly
3-Creme Brulee Made Easy
4-Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
5-Google Docs Instruction Manual
6-How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
7-Preparing a Fillet
8-How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
9-eBay Instructions
10-Changing a Bike Tire
Rankings- Instruction Activity
1. Google Docs Instruction Manual (Very well organized, table of contents, Description of Events, Well-used graphics and steps are very easy to understand)
2. How to Tune Your Guitar (Table of Contents, Introduction and Dictionary, explaining paragraph, Pictures or diagrams at each step with use of italicized font for key words)
3. How to Format Flash/Hard Drive (Introduction, Graphics, and nice walk through of steps with pictures to guide audience)
4.Creme Brulee Made Easy (Nicely organized, simple, and good use of graphics.)
5.Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
6.How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball (Introduction, Step-by-step pictures)
7. eBay Instructions (Perhaps the instruction steps move too quickly at each step. Are these for advanced users? A little detailed description/explanation could make more clear)
8 Preparing a Fillet (Good use of pictures but some instructions are too vague)
9. Remington Model 870 Disassembly
10. Changing a Bike Tire (Lacks introduction and description of certain steps. It could use a better breakdown and explanation of techniques)
Rating
7-Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
2-Google Docs Instruction Manual
6-eBay Instructions
5-How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
3-How to Tune Your Guitar
1-Creme Brulee Made Easy
4-How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
9-Changing a Bike Tire
10-Remington Model 870 Disassembly
8-Preparing a Fillet
I decided on how to order mine by professional looks, labling correctly, and how easy to understand the instructions were. One had font too small(I felt the age group of the audience could be older), some were crunched too small and needed to be spread out better, and a lot of them had their warnings at the end of the step/instructions instead of at the begnning.
1-10
1. Google Docs Instruction
2. How to tune a guitar
3. changing a bike tire
4. remington model 870
5. how to format flash/hard drive
6. preparing a fillet
7. ebay instructions
8. microsoft outlook 2007 email set up
9. Creme brulee
10. how to throw a hook with a bowling ball
These all had really great instructons with picture sets. The reason why i picked google docs as the best was because it gave some troubleshooting advice and had an extensive table of contents which is great. The reason why throwing a bowling ball was ranked 10 is that i think the medium for this instruction set would have been better if it were a video or an actual instructor.
1-10 Instruction sets
1.Fillet- easy to follow
2.Outlook- well designed
3.Bowling ball hook- very precise/good for beginners
4.Bike tire-visuals explain all
5.formating a flash drive- explained well
6.crem brulee- beginners may need more help in some steps
7.Tune guitar- nice equipment wouldn't always expect to have it
8.remington- good picture breakdown, but if unfamiliar with guns it is hard to follow.
9.ebay-a lot about turbo list instead of ebay
10.google docs- very very busy
Instructions Ranked 1-10
1- Google Docs Instruction Manual
2- How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
3- Creme Brulee Made Easy
4- Changing a Bike Tire
5- How to Tune Your Guitar
6- Remington Model 870 Disassembly
7- How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
8- Preparing a Fillet
9- Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
10- eBay Instructions
Activity: List
1. eBay Instructions
2. Preparing a fillet
3. Microsoft outlook 2007 Email Setup
4. Formatting Flash Drive/Hard Drive
5. Changing a bike tire
6. Throwing a Hook in Bowling
7. Creme Brulee
8. Remington Model 870 Disassembly
9. Guitar Tuning
10. Google docs
Instructions Set Grading
1-Creme Brulee Made Easy
2-Changing a Bike Tire
3-Preparing a Fillet
4-How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
5-Remington Model 870 Disassembly
6-Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
7-How to Tune your Guitar
8-How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
9-Ebay Instructions
10-Google Docs Instruction Manual
Directions for ...
1 How to Tune Your Guitar- I thought that this method was very effective and the booklet style/format was helpful.
2 Crème Brulee Made Easy- This set of directions was very simple and the step by step pictures corresponding to the directions were good.
3 Preparing a Fillet- This is very concise and hard to mess up when you follow the directions. Could use more pictures
4 How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball- Simple and effective. The real step by step instructions help.
5 Changing a Bike Tire- I would say that this writer had good intentions when writing this, but fell short and almost lacked directions
6 Remington Model 870 Disassembly- This is a simple yet effective method to clean a gun. It is kind of hard to having an interesting set of directions for something that is hard to get excited about.
7 How to Format Flash/Hard Drive- The author over-analyzed what they are doing
8 Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup- This was horribly boring and I think that I would fall asleep if I was trying to actually follow the directions.
9 eBay Instructions- This is helpful but needs more images
10 Google Docs Instruction Manual Way too much. Who is going to read something that long, there are some points where there is too much text.
Instructions Rating
I would definately rate the how to make creme brulee as number one because the directions came with clear pictures for each step, the instructions were informative but to the point, and the warnings stood out. The how to change a bike tire was next. The directions were good for the same reasons as the creme brulee but the directions were not as descriptive. How to format a flash drive was 3rd. How to dissemble a gun was next because the first page was too cluttered. How to bowl was fifth, how to tune a guitar was sixth, and eBay instructions were seventh. Google instructions were 8th because it was too long and fillet was ninth because it didn't have enough pictures. The last was how to do an e-mail setup because the numbers repeated and became confusing.
my rankings
1. Preparing a Fillet
2. Changing a Bike Tire
3. eBay Instructions
4. Creme Brulee Made Easy
5. How to throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
6. Google Docs Instruction Manual
7. How to Format Flash/ Hard Drive
8. Microsoft 2007 E-mail Setup
9. How to Tune a Guitar
10. Remington Model 870 Disassembly
Order for design
1. creme brulee made easy
2. How to throw a hook w/a bowling ball
3. preparing fillet
4. Changing a bike tire
5. remington model 870 disassembly
6. how to format flash/ hardrive
8. how to tune your guitar.
9. microsoft outlook 2007 email setup
9.google docs instruction manual
10. ebay instructions
Ratings
1. Remington Model 870 Disassembly
2. Changing a Bike Tire
3. How to Tune Your Guitar
4. Creme Brulee Made Easy
5. How to Format Flash/Hard Drive
6. How to Throw a Hook with a Bowling Ball
7. Microsoft Outlook 2007 E-mail Setup
8. Google Docs Instruction Manual
9. Preparing a Fillet
10. eBay Instructions
I rated these based on alignment, effective use of pictures and photographs, and in what format the instructions were written.