Class Activity 13

How to change a tire

What is the audience and purpose of the set of instructions?
-Anyone who has a flat tire. Most likely someone who can life a tire so probably teenagers to adults.

How does the design/organization of the document guide the reader?
-The instructions flows in a paragraph form by spacing in between sentences. Colored headers, italics and bold font styles, and indenting.

Is there enough/too much information in each step?
-There is a good amount of information within the instructions. The other web sites seem to have way more detailing in their instructions. For example in each of the eight steps in the color blue, the sub instructions are detailed but quick to the point.

What kind of language is used in the text? What effect does that language create?
- There are complete sentences. The effect is that the instructions are given but not in an ordering way.

If graphics are used, how effective are they?
- The four document designing principles of headings, highly visual, keeping it simple and keeping the steps close together are shown in these instructions. I really liked the graphics used in these instructions. They are clear and easy to see with the fun colors that they have in them.

Summarize the basic structure for the instruction set.
- The instruction set does include: a title, introduction, safety information, materials/ equipments needed, steps/ procedures/ and conclusion? The title and introduction were clear. There were eight steps. There were warnings, for example, “sometimes the lug nuts are quite difficult to loosen”, and there was a clear conclusion.

The weaknesses of this instruction set?
- I didn’t really seem to find any weaknesses with these set of instructions. The title, introduction, safety information, materials, steps, and conclusion were all present.

There is nothing that I would recommend to the writer for them to improve the instruction except maybe make the font a little bigger, but that was not really a problem.