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Process analysis
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<p>Process analysis is a form of <a href="/facts/Technical_writing/ooL0Khya">technical writing</a> and <a href="/facts/Expository_writing/kHWvGer3">expository writing</a> "designed to convey to the reader how a change takes place through a series of stages". </p><p>While the traditional process analysis and a set of <a href="/facts/Teaching/WIwsQKF9">instructions</a> 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). </p>