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Writing and Polishing Effective Procedures


This pretest is designed to help you identify which areas of procedure writing are your strengths and which areas are your weaknesses.

1) Content experts generally are the most appropriate people to write an instruction.

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False
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2) Tasks generally flow in one of four directions.
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3) "Task description" has the same meaning as "procedure."

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4) Combining steps is a good idea, and the procedure writer should do so as often as possible.

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5) It is a good idea to fully explain "why" within the steps of the procedure.

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False
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6) Narrative formats almost always increase the time it takes a user to complete a task.
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7) The step-by-step format is an excellent format to use when more than one user is required to complete the procedure.

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8) Multi-leveled numbering systems greatly assist the writer and the user.

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9) One way of giving a procedure manual a well-organized appearance is to use a consistent format for all of the procedures.

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