At some time in your working life, you may have to write some instructions in English. Whether it’s explaining how to use the new codes for a photocopier or writing detailed instructions for the new customer database you’ve created, “how-to” documents are a part of workplace life.

As we all know from experience, though, clear, easy-to-follow instructions are often hard to find. That’s mainly because it’s difficult to step outside what we know and explain a procedure so that someone else can follow it.

In this lesson we’ll be looking at some language considerations when writing instructions in English. We won’t go into the technical details of how to write instructions as you can get this sort of information from a reference book on technical writing.

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