# Process analysis

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{{Short description|Form of technical writing and expository writing}}
'''Process analysis''' is a form of [technical writing](/source/technical_writing) and [expository writing](/source/expository_writing) "designed to convey to the reader how a change takes place through a series of stages".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/technical-writing/process-description-how-to-write-about-a-sequence-of-events|title=Process Description: How to Write about a Sequence of Events |author=Dennis G. Jerz |date= |publisher= |accessdate=16 August 2011}}</ref> 

While the traditional process analysis and a set of [instructions](/source/teaching) 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](/source/mechanism_description) is more interested in an object in space (such as the form and nutritional value of a particular kind of apple).

== References ==
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== See also==
* [Process mining](/source/Process_mining)
Category:Technical communication

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