CHAPTER 6

TECHNICAL WRITING TECHNIQUE NO.3

individual microbial cells are transferred to the growth

medium. The steps involve in separation method are:
dilution, sonication or homonogenization, and filtration.

DESCRIPTION OF A PROCESS

Blanching peanuts for Salting

Vocabulary/ Language Improvement

Blanching peanuts for salting is a process of cleaning the

kernel of dust, mold, possible filth, or other foreign
materials. This is a major operation in the manufacture
of salted peanuts. One method of blanching peanuts is
dry blanching that consists of these stages: (1) heating
shelled peanuts; (2) cooling the shelled peanuts; (3)
passing the peanuts through the blancher; and (4)
rubbing the peanuts.

With Nominalization
1. Tell them to avoid the cancellation of the
catalog number of the product.
2. You can have the continuation of the list of liting
devices for gas cylinders in the next page.
3. They expect us to have the publication of the
book. Cylinders and Gases next month.

Description of a process
Without Nominalization

Application

Apply

Description of a process is technical writing technique

that makes you give a written account or explanations of
events orderly occurring one after another over time. It
chronologically presents related events or actions based
on the time or order of their occurrence. For instance, in
a vehicular mishap, first, there is an accident; second, an
investigator; and third, a trial period. Likewise , in
constructing a building, create a design of the unit first,
build the structured based on this design, and subject the
constructed building to a thorough evaluation or test.

Appreciation

Appreciate

( Searles,2003)

Admiration

Admire

Types of a Process

Approximation

Approximate

1. How it operates or how it works process

Allocation

Allocate

Brutalization

Brutalize

-This process description focuses on the way a thing

functions or operates. Central to this is not on who
operate the machine but on how the machine works.

1. Tell them to cancel the catalog number.

2. You can continue the list of lifting devices in the
next page.
3. They expected us to publish the book, Cylinders
and Gases next month.
Nominalizations

Concise Words

Troubleshooting
-Troubleshooting is an act of repairing small engines.
Engine mechanics have sufficient education for the
application of the principles of troubleshooting. One step
in troubleshooting is the determination of which system
needs a repair.
Microbial Isolation
Microbial Isolation is a form of separation that will
result in individual microbial cells. In a laboratory, using
a microscope, medical technologists separate microbes
from one another for further aid in length-analysis or
examination of each microbe cell. It is important to
dilute samples before isolation so that a small number of

2. How to do it process
-This type of a process gives emphasis to the
way you perform or do a thing. In the case, it
stresses the human act of the doer of the action
rather than the process itself.
3. How it happens process
-Unlike the first two processes that give
importance to the role of the user and the
operation of the machine.

4.How it is organized process

Example: Installing an Outdoor T.V. Antenna

Describing a process also happens when you write or

talk about the way a club, an organization, or a business
firm assigns each of its members to a certain rank or
position in the company. This process type explains how
the constituents of the group assume a certain
arrangement or order of their existence in the
organization.

Installing an outdoor antenna is a process of getting a

better signal receiving capability than an indoor antenna.
The instruction for an outdoor antenna installation are:
(1) Installing an omni-directional outdoor antenna: (2)
Installing directional outdoor antenna; (3) Connecting
outdoor antenna; and (4) Orienting the directional
outdoor antenna to FWI.

Parts of a Process Description

Example: Food Digestion

Similar to a description of a mechanism or an object, a

description of a process happens in a step by step order.
First, it begins with an introductory paragraph that gives
a formal or one-sentence logical definition of a process.
The sentence definition sequentially mentions three
components of the definition; namely, name, class, and
purpose.

-Food digestion is the process of metabolism whereby

the food is processed by a biological entity to convert the
substance chemically and mechanically for the body use.
The preparation for digestion is begun by the production
of saliva and enzyme by the cephalic phase.