Planning your Instructions

Your name:
State your object or task here:

1. Who will be the audience for your instructions?
2. What tools or equipment will they need to complete the instructions?
3. What is the purpose of your instructions, or what makes this difficult to use or accomplish? Where might your audience have the most difficulty? Where might you have the most difficulty explaining?
4. What, if anything, will you need to warn your audience about? What are some common mistakes?
5. How long will your instructions be? How many different sections will you have to explain for your audience? List the sections here.
6. Will you need to include pictures or diagrams in your instructions? How many pictures will you need? What will those look like? Why are these important?

7. How might your finished instructions look? Will they be 1-page long or more? Will it look like a book or a pamphlet? Will it be read hard copy or online? Will there need to be hyperlinks? Why€”for what? How else might it look?