Purpose: By writing these instructions, I am hoping to give some history and background of tie-dying to art history majors while still keeping the activity fun and interesting. I hope that after reading these instructions my viewers will be more informed and have a better understanding of why a person would tie-dye in a certain pattern.
Audience: My audience will be from all races and can be both male and female. However, the likely age group will be somewhere around 18-27. Most should be able to perform all of the tasks easily and they will be used to art terms and will have followed directions for doing art projects in the past. They are likely to be in a good mood because they are doing a fun project.
Context: The time and place for this audience should be the same as for the children and parents. It is likely to be outside during the daytime. But, there is no way to be 100 percent sure.
Strategies: I will use numbered directions. I will make sure to emphasize what they will need before beginning and that this project can stain clothes.
Medium: I may write the instructions in a booklet type format. This way they can keep the instructions to look back at the history information. I will also put in lots of pictures to reassure the readers they are doing it correctly.
Arrangement: It will start out just like the children’s directions because they will both need to clearly state what the readers will need before they start the project. Then the warnings are next and then the directions will follow in a step by step format. In the how to tie the shirt/ material section I will give history of how people used to tie their clothing up and why.
Testing: Testing will be a little bit easier for this group than for the children’s group because I can find art history majors on campus. I will then ask them for their feedback and make corrections.
Your purpose is your own,
Your purpose is your own, nothing can be said wrong about that. The audience is good in that you've identified ages, race and gender so nothing can really be left out. The context is kind of hard to come up with on this subject so you are good there. In strategies I would only ask if you are planing on using any kind of graphics like pictures or such. The medium is a good choice (I wonder if I should do the same for my expert version too). The arangement is good since you have the warnings up front so they actually read those before they start the proceedure. Testing, ya you should be able to find someone around here that would be willing. All in all good job.
Good Design Plan
The element most thoroughly covered is probably the Audience. You have identified the age, gender, and race. Also, you have identified the fact that they are art history majors and should therefore know the vocabulary of the instructions. It is interesting that you identify that they will probably be in a good mood. I didn't even think about the mood for my audiences.
The element that isn't covered as much as the others is testing. You have stated you will get their feedback. How will you find the Art History majors? Do you know someone? What if the Art History major hasn't ever tie-dyed before? Those are probably the only things missing from your design plan.
Your proposed instruction set isn't really all that similar to mine because I am going to try to teach children how to shoot a basketball. I will be using pictures and a step by step process like you but that is probably it.
Your instruction set would probably change if it were given to an on-campus organization that wanted to make tye-dye t-shirts for their group but had no past experience with tye-dying.