If this techniques dont work for you (its sometimes hard to read something and then duplicate it in the airplane) you can always ask your instructor to do a steep turn, and articulate what he is doing and why, while he is in the turn. It may help to see someone else do it.

The hardest part of the steep turn is going to be getting setup in the turn, once you are in the turn and trimmed, it is really just a matter of making small corrections.

Try out some of these techniques and let us know how you did.