Process analysis is a form of

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and

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"designed to convey to the reader how a change takes place through a series of stages". While the traditional process analysis and a set of

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are both organized chronologically, the reader of a process analysis is typically interested in understanding the chronological components of a system that operates largely without the reader's direct actions (such as how the body digests an apple), while the reader of a set of instructions intends to use the instructions in order to accomplish a specific, limited task (such as how to bake an apple pie). By contrast, the reader of a

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is more interested in an object in space (such as the form and nutritional value of a particular kind of apple).

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