A procedural text instructs the audience on how to complete a specific task. It provides a sequence of directions so that people can successfully perform an activity in a safe, efficient and appropriate way. Procedural writing can take several forms such as recipes, sciences experiments, directions for a map, manuals and procedural texts can take different forms such as brochures, posters or guidebooks. A text structured as cause and effect explains the results of an action; in another way, it explains why something happened. Cause and effect is a common way to organize information in a persuasive writing mode. Unlike procedural structured texts, cause and effect passages usually focus on explaining the reason why something occurs.