The steps of a cooking recipe.

Setting forth a process is somewhat like writing the steps of a cooking recipe. However, the step-by-step writing of a recipe is missing an important ingredient (hehe) of expository writing: context. A recipe tells you what to do, but that’s all it does. Take a look at the first example:
Mother Greenway’s Secret Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
1 package chocolate chips
Mix sugars, butter, and eggs together. Mix flour, baking soda, and baking powder together. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add chocolate chips and mix thoroughly by hand. Roll into small spheres and bake on an ungreased baking sheet for 10 minutes at 350F. Let cool.
Now look at this example: