Activity: Technical Reading, Writing & Drawing Exercise

Your group has been given an 8 1/2" by 11" sheet of paper with a picture of some shapes and lines:

1. Work with your group to write a set of instructions that will enable a college-educated reader to accurately reproduce this picture.
2. After completing the instructions, reflect on this experience and write about the different challenges you encountered and how you tried to address those challenges.
3. Read the other group's instructions and try to draw the picture they describe.
4. After completing the drawing, reflect on this experience and write about your expectations as a reader and how the other group could have designed a document that more effectively meets those expectations.