For my instructions project, the process will explain how to prepare and cook Jambalaya, a Cajun meal, step by step. I feel that I am experience at this particular food because I make it on a regular basis and everyone who eats it enjoys it more each time. The instructions are going to accommodate a novice and an experienced cook. By keeping the terminology simple with having pictures for a novice, a person just starting to cook, can follow. And with the experienced cook, one who is in the kitchen a lot, I will try to use terminology for them to relate with. I hope that both the novice and the experienced gain a valuable experience following my directions. I feel that this is necessary and legitimate since with this type of food many people do not know how to prepare and cook this meal.
I expect everyone who follows my instructions not to have trouble or misinterpret what I have instructed.
Instructor Feedback: Zebulon
You have defined your topic and credibility here, but the other aspects of this proposal need a fair amount of clarification. You state that "the instructions are going to accommodate a novice and an experienced cook," but you don't define what separates these two groups. What are the needs, expectations, values, and concerns of each? You'll want to think about this with regard to your specific task, because the range of generalized cooking expertise is enormous. Also, you state: "By keeping the terminology simple with having pictures for a novice, a person just starting to cook, can follow. And with the experienced cook, one who is in the kitchen a lot, I will try to use terminology for them to relate with." However, you don't explain what these pictures would be nor what terminology would be appropriate for each group. You need to provide concrete specifics in all of these areas.
All of this is a concern because it is vitally important that you are treating your two audiences as distinct entities. You don't want your two instructions sets to differ only in degree (i.e., the expert set is just a cut-down version of the novice set); you want them to differ in kind (i.e., the expert set is qualitatively different from the novice set). Treat your audience groups as individual units with individuated needs.