Total knitting embarrassment

So I didn't believe Tamie about weaving in the ends on swatches, and posted the same question to the masterknitter list. Lo and behold, the answer is YES, you SHMUCK, YOU DO. That answer can be found in the first paragraph of the general instructions. I'm mildly mortified.

Anyway, I'm working on my tags, and my question is this --> for the "knitting technique" do we write the instructions again? Like for swatch 1, would you write "k2, p2; increase 5; garter" or something similar? I'm not sure how to succinctly summarize.