Instruction sets are common technical documents for many disciplines and occupations. Employees read instructions to learn how to assemble a product or complete a procedure. Supervisors write out company policies that oftentimes serve as instruction sets. Customers read instructions for using a product. For this assignment, you will develop a set of instructions that shows users how to perform a specific task.
Before deciding on a task, consider the following guidelines:
•    Choose something you are very familiar with. It can be something related to your field of study (e.g. how to use a particular piece of laboratory equipment), or something related to a more general audience (e.g. how to learn to juggle).
•    Ideally, your audience should be someone who has never performed this task before.
•    Your audience should have a general understanding of the topic area.
•    Choose a task with an appropriate level of difficulty—neither too easy nor too hard to explain in the space allotted.
•    The task may involve a device: assembling it, operating it, or fixing it. Or it may involve some process (e.g., registering using eLion).
•    The process should have discrete parts or steps that are fairly easy to name and refer to.
•    Your task should be explained in at least 3 pages (single-spaced) of written instructions, including visuals

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