Steps You Need to Follow to Complete this Assignment:
Step 1: Locate an owner’s
Steps You Need to Follow to Complete this Assignment:
Step 1: Locate an owner’s manual for a consumer product, such as a
coffeemaker, bicycle, or hair dryer;
Step 2: In a memo (no more than two pages) to your instructor, discuss
two or three decisions the writer and designers of the manual
appear to have made to address audience-related factors,
purpose-related factors, or document-related factors. For
instance, if the manual is printed only in English, the writers and
designers presumably decided that they don’t have the
resources to create versions in other languages;
Step 3: To what extent does it meet the measures of excellence
discussed in Chapter 3?
Step 4: In what ways does it fall short?
Step 5: Submit a pdf copy of the owner’s manual (or a representative
portion of it) as a separate attachment with your memo (two files
– memo and manual
