A Procedure Text

A procedur text
         A procedure text is designed to describe how something is achieved though a sequence of actions or steps. It explains how people perform different processes in a sequence of steps. This text uses the simple present tense, often imperative sentences. It also usually uses the temporal conjuctions, such as first, second, then, next, finally, etc.

The structure of this text consists of there parts:

1. Goal (or title)
2. Materials (not required for all procedure texts
3. Steps

However, there is a procedural text that only consists of goal and followed by some steps

Example
How to Play Music CDs on the Computer
When you are working with a computer, you can listen to music from CD.
Follow these instructions to play music CDs on the computer.

1. Turn on the computer, put a music CD, with the label side up, in the CD ROM drive. Close the drive.
2. If the CD does not start playing automatatically, click the start menu. Choose programs, then accessories, and then entertainment.
3. Click CD Player.
4. Click the play button on the CD Player window (a singel right-pointing arrow in the top row).
5. Use the pause, stop, skip, to next track, and go back to last track buttons to control what you listen to.
6. Chose edit play list from the disc menu to program a particular sequence of tracks.
7. Minimize the CD Player window if you plan to listen the entire CD while working.