Process analysis

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title: "Process analysis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["technical-communication"] description: "Form of technical writing and expository writing" topic_path: "general/technical-communication" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_analysis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Form of technical writing and expository writing ::

Process analysis is a form of technical writing and expository writing "designed to convey to the reader how a change takes place through a series of stages".

While the traditional process analysis and a set of instructions are both organized chronologically, the reader of a process analysis is typically interested in understanding the chronological components of a system that operates largely without the reader's direct actions (such as how the body digests an apple), while the reader of a set of instructions intends to use the instructions in order to accomplish a specific, limited task (such as how to bake an apple pie). By contrast, the reader of a mechanism description is more interested in an object in space (such as the form and nutritional value of a particular kind of apple).

References

References

1. Dennis G. Jerz. "Process Description: How to Write about a Sequence of Events".

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