instructingthe
Instructingthe is a neologism used in discussions of directive language and instruction design to denote a style of issuing instructions that is explicitly sequential, agent-specific, and referentially precise. The term is not widely adopted in mainstream linguistics or computer science, but it appears in some experimental glossaries and discussions as a concept for analyzing how instructions are framed.
Origin and meaning: The coinage blends “instructing” with the definite article “the,” signaling a focus on a
Applications: In education, technical writing, and user experience design, instructingthe can guide the formatting of manuals
Examples: A typical instructingthe prompt might read, “The assistant should: 1) open the file, 2) run the
Relation to other concepts: Instructingthe overlaps with directive speech, procedural instruction design, and prompt engineering, but