The process that I chose for project two is instructions for fixing a malfunctioning bicycle tire on a standard road bike. In detail, I will explain what to look for in a flat tire, the types of leaks a tire can have, the proper direction for patching or replacing a tire, and correctly pumping the tire to a sufficient pressure. Cycling is gradually becoming a more popular sport and the most common maintenance needed is tire care. I have been cycling for over three years and have had to change a countless amount of tubes and tires. I am knowledgeable on the processes and the different methods used to fix flat tires.
The audience members that my document will target are the amateur road cyclists and semi-practiced road cyclist. The amateur cyclist will have to learn the essentials to tire maintenance from the beginning and the semi-practiced cyclist will learn alternate methods. In order to instruct properly, I will have to provide well documented step by step directions with relative before and after photos.
Instructor Feedback: ymyang
While maintaining a bicycle is clearly important, particularly on a college campus, and, thus, instructions for its use are probably necessary, I do have several concerns about this particular instructional process as a project for this course. Primarily, I am worried that this project will be neither robust nor challenging enough given how you have distinguished between your audiences and described your instruction sets. Both of these stem from the lack of detail you provide in your proposal. You provide a paragraph on why the instructions are necessary and why you should create them, but we get only three sentences total on your audience and your plan for the instructions. This really isn't enough discussion to get a clear sense of what your plan is.
As Jeremy and I have been telling the class, it is vitally important to your project's success that you produce two clearly distinct instruction sets. The general worry with this project is that the difference between the two sets will be one of degree (that is, the expert set will simply be either a truncated version or a more detailed version of the novice set); we are expecting a difference in kind (the expert set should be qualitatively different from the novice set). What you have proposed here can be successful: you point out that your set for experienced users will discuss alternative options. However, there is little discussion of what distinguishes the two audiences and what specifically you will do in terms of content and design to meet the different needs, values, and expectations of your two audiences.