What is a process essay?

A process essay is an essay which serves as an algorithm, that is, a step by step description of a process. While writing a process essay, some basic facts need to be considered like who is the target reader and what skills does the target reader need to possess. These are two very important steps because on these depend the entire language of the essay and the details which will make sense and which are not unnecessary.
While writing a process essay, it will sometimes be that some steps need to be repeated. In such cases, instead of writing the same instruction twice one can adopt another method. One can write all the steps in a point format like

Step 1: Do A
Step 2: Do B
Step 3: If C happens, then repeat step 1 and then go on to step 4. Otherwise, directly go to step 4
Step 4: Do D

A process essay can also be accompanied by a diagram showing the direction of movement between the different steps. Sometimes, that is more complicated and sometimes it is easier. One needs to have a target audience in mind before embarking on any process essay and whether accompanying diagrams will help the purpose or make the matter more complicated depends on the target audience that one has in mind.
A five paragraph essay can be written for almost any activity, whether human or mechanic. For instance, a process essay can be written for recipes, for installing a software or hardware, for setting up a piece of machinery such as a TV or a washing machine and operating them, for origami, for learning how to throw a boomerang, for assembling a toy or a bed, for washing clothes, for taking care of specially formulated flowers, etc.
As can be seen, a personal experience essay can be used to describe almost any activity and thus everyone can read. However an essay written to teach HTML programming will not make much sense to those who know little about computers. Thus, every process essay needs to take into account that the target reader possesses some skills and thus while some things need to be explained, others do not.
The length of a process essay depends on the process. If the essay is an algorithm of a complicated computer program, it can run to hundreds of pages. If the process essay is about a simple recipe, it may perhaps be of about 300 words in length. Thus, the length of process essays is variable. Some essays such as German essay can also be the size of a book. Books such as ?teach yourself how to play the guitar? can also be described as long process essays.
It is important to revise a process essay thoroughly. There should be no inaccuracies and if any step not done accurately can lead to serious damage to the process or to the person carrying out that process, then such hazards should also be clearly mentioned next to those steps.