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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Questions for progress report
Widow
Sentence
Procedures
2. Written step by step instructions
Informative
Chronological sequence
Visuals
Sequential
3. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inquiry Letters
Titles
Etymology
Laboratory reports
4. Should be determined before writing
Purpose and audience
Motivated Method
Analytical reports
Archaic terms
5. Areas that are occupied by text.
Topical Method
Gray spaces
Pictograms
Archaic terms
6. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Temporal Method
Business letter structure
Analytical reports
Semi tech
7. An expert to another expert
Working definition
High tech doc
Parenthetical
Purpose and audience
8. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Cause and effect
Titles
Feasibility
Questions for feasibility report
9. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Unsolicited
Expanded definition
Gantt charts
Letters of inquiry
10. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Descriptive Abstract
Sentence definition
Nontech
Schematic diagrams
11. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Semi tech
Secondary source
Working definition
Resume
12. Alphabetical - lists definitions of words - Short and precise definitions - Required if there are more than 5 terms in need of definitions. They should be defined in the text or as a footnote as well.
Glossary
Tutorial
External document
Soft evidence
13. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Ascender
Visuals
Abstract
Formal reports
14. The height of the uppercase letters.
Cap height
Inquiry Letters
Operator's manuals
Temporal Method
15. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Claim Letters
Spatial sequence
Inside address
Grant
16. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Executive
Line graphs
External document
Ascender
17. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Business letter structure
Inside address
Glossary
Unsolicited
18. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Bar graphs
Unsolicited
Tutorial
Subordinate clause
19. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Process narrative
Feasibility
Cause and effect
Feasibility reports
20. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Parenthetical
Motivated Method
Problem Solution (Method)
Process narrative
21. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Temporal Method
Gray spaces
Sentence definition
Progress reports
22. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Feasibility report structure
Gantt charts
Indirect pattern
Analytical reports
23. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Independent clause
Hard evidence
Informal reports
Abstract
24. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Emphatic
Functional sequence
Archaic terms
Hard evidence
25. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Table of Contents
Descriptive Abstract
Expanded
Parenthetical definition
26. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Archaic terms
Technical brief
Justification
Emphatic
27. Explaining how the item works
Claim Letters
Operation
Justification
Solicited
28. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Procedures
Process analysis
Spatial Method
Titles
29. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Sentence definition
Compound sentence
Nontech
Questions for progress report
30. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Service manuals
Audience analysis
Emphatic
Compound-complex sentence
31. Show trends and changes over time
Primary source
Informative
X-height
Line graphs
32. Requests for information.
RFI
Grant
Widow
Gantt charts
33. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Bar graphs
Expanded definition
X-height
Cause and effect
34. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Questions for feasibility report
Process description
Nontech
Semitechnical presentations
35. Clarifies information presented in the document. Sometimes more than one is needed. If so - they must be in order that they appear in the text - and each is named A - B - etc...
RFI
Letters of inquiry
Appendix
Negation
36. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Progress reports
Topical Method
Process analysis
Schematic diagrams
37. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Appendix
Etymology
Resume
Sales
38. Front matter - cover letter - title page - table of contents - body: summery - intro - problem - rationale - cost - expertise - responsibility - sales pitch - request for approval - conclusion back matter: appendix - bibliography - glossary
Service manuals
Orphan
Grant
Long proposals
39. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Ascender
Purpose and audience
Abstract
Glossary
40. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Grant
Schematic diagrams
Glossary
Descender
41. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Service manuals
Purpose and audience
Causal Method
Letters of inquiry
42. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Analytical reports
Compound sentence
Technical brief
Primary source
43. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Secondary audience
X-height
Ascender
Questions for feasibility report
44. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Sentence definition
Hard evidence
Functional sequence
45. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Working definition
Ascender
Letters of inquiry
46. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Internal document
Feasibility report structure
Letters of inquiry
Archaic terms
47. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Descriptive
Serif
Visuals
Titles
48. Written for skilled and unskilled
Operator's manuals
Routine Internal
Letters of complaint
User manuals
49. The origin of the word
Etymology
Secondary source
Closing
Spatial sequence
50. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
X-height
Conclusion
Instructions
Letters of complaint