Process Analysis Essay
Ensure You Are Never Left In the Dark
A trip to the bowling alley is anything but boring. There are pool tables, air hockey tables and arcade games you can play if bowling just isn’t your fancy. Also, you can’t go to the bowling alley without getting some good-ol’ snack bar food! There’s nachos, cheese fries and corn dogs; with so many choices who could complain? I finally learned to stop asking that question after my parents purchased a bowling alley and put me to work. Bowling machines are just that- machines. One can’t expect a machine to work one hundred percent of the time, flawlessly. Occasionally a bowling machine will mess up, it’s inevitable. For instance the scoring system could go down leaving most people lost. Fortunately for you this essay will help keep you in the light if the scoring system at your local bowling alley is ever in the dark. Manual scoring is a very simple task. More times than not people make it much harder than it really is. You only need a few “materials:” a pen or pencil (anything to write with will do) and a piece of paper or something to write on and you are ready for some fun. To accurately score a game of bowling you must first know a few simple “ground rules” and some bowling terminology. Each turn is called a frame, and each frame consists of two rolls or two chances to knock down all of the pins. The only exception to this would be the tenth frame, if you bowl a strike or spare you are awarded a third roll. A strike (recorded as an X on the score sheet) occurs when a bowler knocks down all ten pins on their first roll of the frame. If this happens the second roll is no longer necessary and it becomes the next persons turn. This is scored by giving the bowler a 10 plus the number of pins knocked down on the next two rolls. A spare (recorded as a forward slash (/) on the score sheet) occurs when the bowler uses both rolls to knock down all ten pins. This is scored by giving the player a 10 plus the next ball rolled. An open
A trip to the bowling alley is anything but boring. There are pool tables, air hockey tables and arcade games you can play if bowling just isn’t your fancy. Also, you can’t go to the bowling alley without getting some good-ol’ snack bar food! There’s nachos, cheese fries and corn dogs; with so many choices who could complain? I finally learned to stop asking that question after my parents purchased a bowling alley and put me to work. Bowling machines are just that- machines. One can’t expect a machine to work one hundred percent of the time, flawlessly. Occasionally a bowling machine will mess up, it’s inevitable. For instance the scoring system could go down leaving most people lost. Fortunately for you this essay will help keep you in the light if the scoring system at your local bowling alley is ever in the dark. Manual scoring is a very simple task. More times than not people make it much harder than it really is. You only need a few “materials:” a pen or pencil (anything to write with will do) and a piece of paper or something to write on and you are ready for some fun. To accurately score a game of bowling you must first know a few simple “ground rules” and some bowling terminology. Each turn is called a frame, and each frame consists of two rolls or two chances to knock down all of the pins. The only exception to this would be the tenth frame, if you bowl a strike or spare you are awarded a third roll. A strike (recorded as an X on the score sheet) occurs when a bowler knocks down all ten pins on their first roll of the frame. If this happens the second roll is no longer necessary and it becomes the next persons turn. This is scored by giving the bowler a 10 plus the number of pins knocked down on the next two rolls. A spare (recorded as a forward slash (/) on the score sheet) occurs when the bowler uses both rolls to knock down all ten pins. This is scored by giving the player a 10 plus the next ball rolled. An open