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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
X-height
Gantt charts
Negation
Indirect pattern
2. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Internal document
Formal Internal
Titles
Grant
3. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Direct Pattern
High tech doc
Compound-complex sentence
Titles
4. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Laboratory reports
Grant
Chronological sequence
Letters of complaint
5. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Working definition
Conclusion
Informal reports
Gantt charts
6. Afive pointer speech - 1 - get attetion; 2 - establish problem; 3 - satisfy the need; 4 - visualize the need answered in future; 5 - ask action from audience.
Grant
Motivated Method
Nontech
Jargon
7. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Primary source
Expanded
Problem Solution (Method)
Letters of inquiry
8. Describing how a mechanism works
Feasibility report structure
Functional sequence
Inside address
Causal Method
9. A subject-oriented description
Grant
Soft evidence
Process analysis
Serif
10. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Feasibility report structure
Semitechnical presentations
Orphan
Pictograms
11. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Ascender
Justification
Soft evidence
Subordinate clause
12. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Memo
Pictograms
Inside address
Negation
13. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Solicited
Formal reports
Internal document
Spatial sequence
14. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Descriptive
Spatial sequence
Operator's manuals
Indirect pattern
15. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Emphatic
Subordinate clause
Procedures
Purpose and audience
16. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Laboratory reports
Ascender
Progress reports
Secondary audience
17. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Exploded diagrams
Reliability of source
Letters of inquiry
Semi tech
18. An expert to another expert
Claim Letters
Descriptive
High tech doc
Compound sentence
19. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Laboratory reports
Questions for feasibility report
Audience analysis
Hard evidence
20. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Direct Pattern
Feasibility report structure
Operator's manuals
Descriptive
21. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Topical Method
Expanded definition
Operator's manuals
Questions for progress report
22. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Primary audience
Spatial sequence
Jargon
Justification
23. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Internal document
Serif
Secondary audience
Formal Internal
24. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Exploded diagrams
Serif
RFI
Long proposals
25. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Informational reports
Semitechnical presentations
Working definition
Expanded
26. Requests for information.
Problem Solution (Method)
Negation
RFI
Parenthetical definition
27. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Nontech
Cap height
Internal document
Compound sentence
28. The origin of the word
Feasibility report structure
Negation
Internal document
Etymology
29. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Instructions
Resume
Working definition
Direct Pattern
30. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Solicited
Inside address
Exploded diagrams
Causal Method
31. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
High tech doc
X-height
Formal reports
Expanded
32. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Schematic diagrams
Semitechnical presentations
Unsolicited
Executive
33. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Closing
Procedures
Process analysis
High tech doc
34. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Reliability of source
Titles
RFI
Parenthetical definition
35. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Problem Solution (Method)
Grant
Definition by components
Topical Method
36. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Emphatic
Technical brief
Black spaces
Tutorial
37. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Formal reports
Gantt charts
Motivated Method
Direct Pattern
38. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Table of Contents
Technical brief
Problem Solution (Method)
External document
39. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Unsolicited
Grant
Chronological sequence
Expanded
40. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Letters of inquiry
Gantt charts
X-height
Service manuals
41. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Orphan
Secondary source
Feasibility
Problem Solution (Method)
42. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Analytical reports
Sentence
Black spaces
Expanded
43. Steps to complete a task
Feasibility reports
Instructions
Flowchart
Informational reports
44. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Cause and effect
Compound sentence
Semitechnical presentations
Expanded
45. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Sales
Inquiry Letters
Descriptive Abstract
Parenthetical definition
46. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Feasibility
Topical Method
Audience analysis
Secondary audience
47. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Formal reports
Claim Letters
Functional sequence
Informative
48. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Informational reports
Pictograms
Black spaces
Archaic terms
49. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Claim Letters
Bar graphs
Informative
Operator's manuals
50. Explaining how the item works
Ethical Tech
Compound sentence
Operation
Indirect pattern