Technical Directions

Which of these is not an example of technical directions?

• A car manual

• A guide on how to clean your oven

• A guide on how to make soap

• The blurb at the back of a book

How do pictures help to explain directions and instructions?

• They help the reader to understand the context

• They look pretty

• They take up space on the page so the author doesn't have to write as much

• They give the reader something to look at when they get bored

What is a glossary?

• A type of computer

• A short dictionary that explains what any complex words mean

• A list of authors who wrote a book

• An alphabetical list

How should instructions be laid out?

• Alphabetically

• In chronological order (the first step first, the second step second...)

• However you want

• In one big paragraph

What should be labelled 'Figure 1'

• The last picture included in the instructions

• The first picture included in the instructions

• Pictures of people only

• Pictures of technology only

What was the purpose of the technical directions that we read in class? (multiple answers)

• To tell people how to put together a computer and connect it to the internet

• To tell people how to put together a microwave and cook something

• To tell people what each part of the computer is which and what it is for

• To tell people why computers are useful to us

What is a CPU?

• Controlling and Patrolling Unit

• Computer Processing Unit

• Colourful Page Ultimatum

• Central Processing Unit

What is another word for function?

• Computer part

• Understand

• Reason

• Purpose

Figure 1 in the powerpoint was...

• An ipod

• An iphone

• A walkman music player

• An MP3 player

The information you give to a computer is...

• Processing

• Input

• Output

• Storage