Process Essay

WRTG 291 Process Essay Instructions: In this project, you will write a process essay of 1000 words. In this process essay, you will write for your audience the steps involved in finding a topic, locating sources, focusing the topic as a result of finding your sources, and eventually writing a research essay. There are two types of process essays. An informative process essay provides information about how something works. A directive process essay explains how to do something. This essay will most likely be a directive process essay. A good process essay begins with a thesis that tells the reader why the description of the process is important. A writer needs to remember to include each step in the process and all the items needed to complete it. It is important to be specific when describing the actions taken. (G. H. Muller and H. S. Wiener, The Short Prose Reader. McGraw-Hill, 2006)