PaperDue

Essay Topic Hub

Process
Essays

25,438+ paper examples, study guides & outlines

25,438 papers

UG & Grad levels

Free to browse

What is Process Essays (Examples)?

A process essay is fundamentally different from other types of academic writing assignments. In fact, it is closer to technical writing than to other types of academic writing. That is because a process essay describes a process that leads to a specific outcome. There are two approaches to the process essay. The first approach is often referred to as a directional process essay and is the simpler of the two approaches; it describes the steps necessary to complete a task. The second approach to the process essay does more than outline steps, it also analyzes or explains the steps involved in the process. The wording of your assignment will be important when you are trying to determine which approach to take while writing your process essay.

The introduction of your process essay needs to accomplish several things. First, it needs to introduce the process you are going to describe, and give background information about that process, when such information is necessary. Next, it needs to identify your audience. Identifying your audience does not require actually saying the targeted audience for your essay, but, if your reader needs a certain educational, technical, or professional background to understand the essay, then the introduction provides a great opportunity for you to provide that material.

The body of the essay involves your actual descriptions of the process. For simple directional process essays, the body of the essay involves a step-by-step description of each part of the process. For analytical process essays, in addition to outlining the steps you might explain them to the reader or analyze whether the steps are necessary to the process and make the process more efficient, or should be eliminated or changed in order to maximize efficiency and performance.

Finally, the conclusion of your essay will reiterate what you hope to achieve with the process described in the essay. If you have analyzed the process and found it lacking, the conclusion may also describe suggestions for further study or review.

25,438 papers

Sort by:

Research Paper Doctorate

Market Penetration, Development, and Product Strategy

Market penetration is one strategy that many businesses consider when they decide to expand their business operation to other regions but within the same market. Market penetration usually involves the establishment of…

Paper Undergraduate

Globalization and Outsourcing: Business Trends and Strategies

The paper discusses globalization and outsourcing as new world trends assessing the impact this trend has on business. In the discussion, the outcome of globalization and outsourcing are given showing the ideal strategies of implementing them. Solutions for the negative effect are given highlighting the major out outcomes form obtainable.

Iraq vs. Iran NIEs: Comparing Intelligence Analytical Standards

This essay compares and contrasts the 2002 and 2007 NIEs in light of the ODNI's analysis standards. It determines that the 2002 NIE suffered from a lack of attention to standards of analysis tradecraft, and as such overestimated its own degree of accuracy. The 2007 NIE, on the other hand, demonstrates a level of analytical rigor that should be the norm.

Paper Doctorate

Does the Electoral College Represent the Will of the American People?

This paper looks at an empirical question in American politics and answers it based on research. In this case, the democratic nature of the Electoral College is examined based on the intentions of the Founding Fathers when creating it and comparing it to all previous presidential elections. The results of this comparison are used to support the thesis statement of the paper, which is that the Electoral College is a democratic institution that does not need to be changed in order to reflect our nation's democratic values.

Criminal Profiling as a Tool for Catching Serial Killers

This paper seeks to investigate the actual role that criminal profiling plays in the apprehension of serial killers. Does criminal profiling lead to a meaningful reduction in the list of potential suspects and therefore help investigators find the perpetrators of serial murder, or does profiling allow investigators to make educated guesses about the identity of serial perpetrators, which, without the input derived from standard police procedure would be essentially useless? The literature certainly suggests that criminal profiling for serial killers can aid in the apprehension of a suspect and help eliminate people in the subject pool, but criminal profiling, on its own, cannot identify a suspect.

Paper Undergraduate

Battle of Cowpens: Strategic Analysis and Military Lessons

This paper is a battle analysis of the Battle of Cowpens. It also discusses the significance of the battle in the context of the larger American effort to prevent the British occupation of the Southern colonies. It then describes the tactical and operational context of the battle and the key events in the battle. Finally, it attempts to explain the reasons for the American victory and the military principles illustrated therein.

Thesis Undergraduate

Internet Freedom vs. National Security: SOPA, PIPA, and the Four Factions

This paper analyses the debate of internet freedom against the need for national security. Topics discussed include the Internet and hacking groups like Anonymous, silicon valley companies like Google, as well as cyber security agencies and media corporations who would like to see greater censorship in order to protect their business's profits.

Thesis Undergraduate

Communication in Organizations: Channels, Culture & Conflict

Communication in organizations includes all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is passed up, down, and across the network of managers and workers in a business. These various types of communication may be used to distribute official information between workers and management, to trade hearsay and rumors, or anything in between. The dispute for businesses is to control these countless communications so they serve to advance customer relations, encourage employee satisfaction, build knowledge-sharing all through the organization, and most significantly, improve the firm's competitiveness

Thesis Undergraduate

Plantation Architecture and Slave Communities in the South

The plantation architecture in the South developed over centuries, reflected not only the evolution of the slave communities, but also their interaction with the owners, their cultural background and their integration in the economic structure of the South. Many of the phases in this development, including creolization, brought forth new elements in architecture, as well as in the anthropological and cultural evolution of these communities. The aim of this paper is to discuss Southern architecture with distinct examples from plantation houses and slave communities, with an additional perspective on creaolization and its impact.

Paper Doctorate

Income, Social Status, and the Determinants of Health

Since the 1990's, a very important body of research (Marmot and Wilkinson, 1999; Wilkinson and Marmot, 2001; Berkman and Kawachi, 2000) has emerged about the determinants of health. Evidence has been systematically collected about how path- ways through societal, political, environmental and economic determinants become translated into illness and disease, and how social conditions and settings in which people live their lives not only influence how they behave, but also have a direct impact on their health. The social determinants approach seeks to address the social dimensions of health and illness that arise at the level of populations. Thus it is a population health approach, concerned with improving the health of whole populations or specific sub-groups of the population. It aims to reduce inequities through policies, programs, research and interventions that are designed to support, protect and enhance health (Keleher and Murphy, 2004a).

← Prev 1 2 3 … 582 2544 Next →