Procedural Rhetoric Project

Learning about procedural rhetoric and the art of giving instructions has been quite fascinating to me. I’ve never stopped to think about the writing of instructions and directions and the challenges it might post, until now. This project allowed to think back at many instruction manuals I’ve read to put things together.  The first thing that comes to mind IKEA. I love the convenience and options IKEA offers and enjoy going in and seeing, testing, and picking out different furniture for my home. Although buying at IKEA is fun, assembling the things I buy is not so fun. I devote days to assembling and find that the cheaper the item I buy the more trouble I have assembling. This theory is not quite proven though but I do know many agree.

The procedural rhetoric project for my group members and I allowed us to brainstorm different ideas about what we could make procedures for. We brainstormed a few ideas and decided to go with how to save money. Ways to save money when shopping is a to many people can use to ensure they don’t go over their budget. This assignment allowed us to collaborate and what I noticed was that the art of procedural rhetoric has different aspects that are essential or non essential to different people.

We each have our input on what we thought was important when trying to save while shopping and then numbered our list from what we thought they should do first to last.

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