2-3 How the Internet Works

Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.

In this lesson, you are going to write a detailed description of the process of sending and receiving information through the internet.

In process writing, the writer presents a series of steps that explain how something happens, how something works, or how something is done. It is an organizational form of writing that we commonly see when reading instructions on or explanations of how something works. It is important to note that process writing needs to be written clearly so readers can easily follow the process or explanation.

When explaining a process, writers use the following language:

These are words and phrases that refer to the order of what happens in a process. You have seen this in many lessons, such as Use of English 2-1 and Use of English 5-1. Look at the following examples:

As you already saw in Writing Skills 8-2, the passive voice is often used when describing a process because it puts the focus on the actions in the process instead of the agent.

Relative clauses, as seen in Unit 4 Grammar, are often used to avoid repeating the subject. At the same time, they give additional information about a noun in the sentence making the sentence complex instead of having two separate simple sentences.

Now, open the exercise and follow the instructions.

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.