A.
Overview
In work activities, it's common to explain a process for business purposes both
orally or in writing. A method is a series of actions that are usually used when people
want to describe how to do or make something and how something happens, such as
designing an attractive flyer, manufacturing a product, etc. A process can also explain
how something happens, for example, how to handle customer complaints by phone.
A process will mostly be described in a diagram that is easier to understand. Clear
steps describing a process will bring success to your business.
B. Begin Explaining Process
1. For explaining a process, you must know the steps to describe how something
happens or how to do something. Therefore, to begin any process description,
start by identifying all the pieces of the process.
2. Understand carefully all the steps involved.
3. Use understandable and straightforward vocabulary. You need to define
unfamiliar terms.
4. Process pieces tend to focus, modestly, on specific, oneand-only streaming
events, without trying to universalize.
5. Detail the steps and make the process come to life. Process details are like a
camera zooming in action, which captures moments to notice possible patterns.
C. Steps of Writing a Diagram of Process
1. Getting Started
Decide how many processes or events you want to write about.
More complicated events or processes, of course, require longer
explanations.
Choose a topic that is more conical in accordance with the length of your
writing.
2. Making Important Notes Before writing, making notes of the important parts of a
process or event is very useful and should be done. In making notes, keep these
things in mind:
What materials, equipment, and tools are used during the process?
Define specific terms that could be less common to give more
understanding to the readers.
Where and how long it takes to complete a process or event.
3. Organizing Notes
The notes made must be grouped based on their parts or chronological
order to become a single entity that is not separated from beginning to
end.
The notes that have been arranged can be re-filtered into main and
essential points according to compositional limitations or length of
writing.
4. Making a Detailed Explanation
Start writing with the main topic sentence and state clearly what will be
conveyed in the article, for example, the College Entrance Procedure for
High School Graduates.
Next, write in chronological order.
Use transitional expressions to show the interrelationships between parts
of the writing so that the plot can be read smoothly and clearly.
To make sure the writing is in chronological order, you can ask yourself
and check the notes whether all the leading and essential elements are
included.
5. Revising
After completing the draft, reread it and ask yourself the following questions:
Has my writing started with a clear statement?
Have I defined specific terms so that readers will understand better?
Have I provided paragraphs with clear statements and main points?
Have I explained the sequence of processes or events in chronological
order so that the readers will follow them easily?
Have I used appropriate connectors to show interrelated parts of the
writing? • Have I provided a clear example?
Do I use a variety of sentences so that my writing is not monotonous?
* Ask your colleagues or your mentors to read your writing and ask their
opinion. Then, ask them to give any suggestions.
D. Common Vocabulary
Verbs Adjective Noun Adverb
Creates Natural Cycle First/firstly
Produces Human- Repetition Second/secondly
Makes procedured Repeats After/afterwards/once
Distributes Man-made Loops Next
Moves Cyclical Continues Later
Begins Linear indefinitely Following
Continues Step (s) Recurs Subsequently
Follows Cyclical Step Finally/lastly
Ends Repetitious Stage During
Repeats Phrase While
Meanwhile
Connector Lexical Resource
To begin All the phrases below are suitable for a
Following this process diagram description, but please
Next remember to adapt them to your specific
Then rubric.
After A multi-step process...
After that The process starts with … and ends
at....
Before
We have a six-step process whereby
... following this step,
water undergoes a purification
...then...
process.
followed by
... which causes it to ...
first, second, and finally
The final product is sent to the
After this step is completed...
finish stage ...
It consists of … steps starting with
… and ending with/at.