PROCEDURE (MANUAL)

PROCEDURE (MANUAL)

by Junaidi Abdillah

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​Manual, also known as user’s guide, is a book/document which tells you how to do something or how a piece of machinery works. It is usually written by a technical writer. User guides are most commonly associated with electronic goods, computer hardware and software. Most user guides contain both a written guide and the associated images.

​DEFINITION

SOCIAL FUNCTION

To inform the reader how to operate or use something through a sequence of steps.

​GENERIC STRUCTURE

• Goal (showing ​the purpose)

• ​Material (telling the needed material)

• ​Steps 1 - n (describing the steps to achieve the purpose)

​LANGUAGE FEATURES

• ​Using present tense

• ​Using imperative sentence

• ​Using temporal conjunction

• ​Using action verbs

Multiple Choice

How to Clean an LCD Screen

1. Shake up the detergent and put it 15 — 20 cm away from the LCD screen.

2. Spray on the LCD screen surface directly.

3. Cleanse gently using the fabric cleanser or brush.

You can also do the following steps:

1. Spray the detergent on the fabric cleanser.

2. Clean the LCD screen surface to make it as bright as a new one.

 What should you do to detergent first?

• Spray it

• Clean it

• Put it away

• Shake it up

Multiple Choice

How to Clean an LCD Screen

1. Shake up the detergent and put it 15 — 20 cm away from the LCD screen.

2. Spray on the LCD screen surface directly.

3. Cleanse gently using the fabric cleanser or brush.

You can also do the following steps:

1. Spray the detergent on the fabric cleanser.

2. Clean the LCD screen surface to make it as bright as a new one.

Before cleaning the screen surface, we spray the detergent on the screen surface directly or spray it on ….

• Our fingers

• The paper

• The fabric cleanser

• The brush

Multiple Choice

How to save videos from Instagram

First, open the Instagram app.

Second, open the story or video you want to save.

Third, tap its corresponding menu button (located in the lower right-hand corner, represented by 3 dots)

Next, when the pop-up menu appears, tap Save or Save Photo/Video.

Why does the writer write the text?

• To tell the use of Instagram app

• To describe a video from Instagram

• To share the way to save videos from Instagram

• To tell how to create a video using Instagram

• To see the content of Instagram

Multiple Choice

What are the generic structures of procedure text?

• goal, materials, steps

• materials and steps

• goal, equipment, steps

• title, goal, materials, steps

• goal, materials, equipment, steps

Multiple Choice

There are some of the characteristics of procedure text below, except ...

• Using action verbs

• Using simple present tense

• Using imperative sentence

• Using interrogative sentence

• Using conjuction