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In technical writing, process narrative is one of the most important types of writing. People need to understand how things happen, how things work, how to use things, and how to do certain actions. A 叙述 讲述某事在历史时间段内是如何发生的。A proses 是一种事件或一系列可以执行的或者定期或重复发生的事件。"程序"和"例行公事"是密切相关的。当你"叙述"一个"过程,"你解释某样东西是如何运作的或是如何发生的。我们在这里将使用“过程讨论”。

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什么是过程?

Process narrative is an information structure—it's one of those fundamental combinations of content and organizational patterns you use in many different situations in technical writing. For example, instructions are an application of technical writing; instructions make heavy use of process narrative. (See the chapter on 指示.)

本章的重点是写作的一些基本指导原则 非指导性 过程叙述。这些过程叙述回答以下问题:

When we ask questions like these, we expect a clear, step-by-step explanation of how the mechanism works or how the phenomenon occurs. We’re not looking to do it ourselves, just to understand it. In another chapter, you read about causal naratif. These are closely related to process narratives. In causal narratives, we want to understand why something happens, what causes it, and what the results or consequences are. In process narratives, we focus on how something happens, how it works, in a step-by-step manner. Often, the line between these two is not clear.

Step-by-step narrative: format
Process narrative. 一步一步,这段文字解释了电脑如何"识别"语音。

Proses naratif fokus pada perkara seperti pembentukan kilat, salji, taufan, had sejuk, puting beliung; gestasi embrio manusia; penyerbukan bunga; operasi automatik mesin fotokopi atau komputer; kejadian supernova, lubang hitam, raksasa merah, atau kerdil putih. Proses naratif menerangkan cara kerja mekanisme seperti bateri kenderaan, mentol lampu, telefon, televisyen, ketuhar gelombang mikro, penerima stereo.

如前所述,本章的重点是 非教学的 process. Namun, walaupun menerangkan bagaimana doktor melakukan pembedahan jantung terbuka atau bagaimana sebuah loji kuasa nuklear berfungsi mungkin kedengarannya seperti arahan, ia bukan! Biasanya, dokumen mengenai topik ini akan memberikan orang ramai gambaran tentang apa yang berlaku dalam proses ini. Ilustrasi seterusnya menyampaikan idea umum tentang bagaimana air laut ditukarkan menjadi air tawar:

method for the desalination of seawater (format)
流程叙述. 一步一步,本文本讨论了一种海水淡化的方法。

如何将过程分成步骤?

When you write a process narrative—whether it's a single paragraph or a whole report—one of the most important tasks is to break down the process into its main steps, phases, stages, or periods. There are other ways to approach a process narrative, but breaking it down by steps is often the most effective. For instance, you could organise a process narrative by the key components of a mechanism. Use whichever approach seems to suit your readers, topic, and purpose best.

一个步骤是一个动作或事件(或一组相关的)在过程中执行或发生的。考虑一个简单的过程,比如用滴漏咖啡壶煮咖啡。这样的活动涉及以下步骤,每个步骤实际上代表一组动作。

步骤
1. 煮水 ------------------------>
2. 冲洗咖啡壶和滤网
3. 测量新咖啡
4. 倒入沸水
个人行动(第一步)
a. 找到水壶并把它带到水槽。
b. 开水和冲洗水壶
c. 把水壶加满到所需的量
d. 关掉水龙头,然后走到炉子那里
e. 把水壶放在炉子上
f. 开启炉灶
g. 等水煮开

Obviously, no one needs to be told all these specific actions; the example shows that a step usually stands for a group of related specific actions or events. If you look back at the preceding desalination example, you see a more realistic example of this process of division into steps. The narrative focuses on four steps in the desalination process: (1) pressurisation and evaporation, (2) freezing, (3) separation, and (4) discharge of the briny portion of the seawater.

How are process narratives used in technical documents? First and foremost, processes are typically explained in instructions. For some situations, explaining how a thing works is almost as effective as providing the direct step-by-step instructions. And in any case, people understand the actions they are performing better when they understand the actions behind those actions. Process narratives are also vital in new product documents—either internal (meant for the product's designers and marketers) or external (meant for the product's customers and users). And finally, process narratives are important in scientific research literature. You can imagine researchers studying acid rain or oil spills—understanding these processes might lead to controlling them better.

如何讨论步骤?

When you explain a process, your aim is to help readers understand how it works and the usual events that happen in that process. You use any writing tools you have to achieve that. One common way to explain a process is by breaking it down into steps, phases, periods, or stages. These are essentially time segments or groupings of closely related events or actions. Check out any of the examples in this chapter; you'll notice process sentences all over.

不过,大多数过程叙述如果没有背后的原因和效果解释,就没有多大意义。例如,读到龙卷风形成时,天气变阴,风雨和龙卷风出现,造成破坏,这并不是很令人兴奋。我们想要的不仅仅是基本过程:我们想知道是什么导致它们形成,哪些条件有利于它们的形成,它们形成后如何 behave,当然还有它们造成什么样的损害。

其他种类的信息也可以补充关于过程的讨论:

有丝分裂 是细胞复制的过程,在这个过程中,一个细胞产生两个相同的子细胞。这个过程由四个主要阶段组成:前期、中期、后期和间期。
  1. It seems you've only provided "In" without any additional text. Please provide the text you'd like to be translated. 前期基因物质变得浓厚并卷曲成染色体,核消失,一组纤维开始形成纺锤体。
  2. 在中期,染色体自我复制,并在细胞的中线排列。 这两个半被称为 姊妹染色单体.
  3. 在后期,姐妹染色单体被纺锤丝拉向细胞的两端。此时,母细胞的细胞质分裂形成两个子细胞,每个子细胞具备母细胞拥有的染色体的数量和类型。
  4. 在间期,女儿细胞开始独立运作,一旦它们的细胞核膜和核仁重新形成。

扩展过程叙述的例子. 信息结构可以像手风琴一样—根据你的需要展开或收起。点击这个例子中的链接,看看前期讨论的展开。

如何格式化过程叙述?

这里有一些关于格式的建议,特别是与流程叙述相关的。

Schematic of a process narrative
过程叙述的示意图. 一种典型或常见的内容和组织模型——其他模型也是可能的。

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