Instruction Documents: Writing Effective Steps

Based on a Lego® model, this video addresses the characteristics of instructional documents and strategies used to construct effective step-by-step procedures using text and visual integration to reinforce tasks. Key components are the sections of instructional documents: lists of materials used, tasks broken down to major and minor steps, and integration of text with visuals. Guidelines include numbering and chunking tasks, using imperative voice, and diagramming parts. You will see one completed step of a procedure for assembling a Lego® figure.

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Parlance & User Fairness:
Instructions are too often written with the developer in mind, rather than the end user. This inauspiciously serves the end of over-committing the user to an unnecessary long learning curve.
One way this happens is that an explanation drags thre user through a long series of contextual arcanities, rather than respecting/speaking the user's parlance.

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