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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Technical writing
Chronological sequence
Justification
Inside address
2. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Service manuals
External document
Topical Method
Titles
3. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Audience analysis
Analytical reports
Feasibility report structure
Chronological sequence
4. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Ascender
Parenthetical
Informative
Compound sentence
5. Explaining how the item works
Operation
Etymology
Questions for progress report
Subordinate clause
6. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Informational reports
Flowchart
Orphan
Semitechnical presentations
7. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Independent clause
Problem Solution (Method)
Compound-complex sentence
Feasibility reports
8. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Closing
Jargon
Claim Letters
Descriptive
9. Areas that are occupied by text.
Closing
Descender
Spatial sequence
Gray spaces
10. Steps to complete a task
Bar graphs
Secondary source
Routine Internal
Instructions
11. Simplified description of a term.
Memo
Soft evidence
Informal reports
Working definition
12. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Sales
Primary source
Line graphs
Descender
13. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Parenthetical
Bar graphs
Memo
Grant
14. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Direct Pattern
Procedures
Formal reports
Formal Internal
15. Requests for information.
RFI
Hard evidence
Progress reports
Sequential
16. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Glossary
Motivated Method
Table of Contents
Widow
17. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Routine Internal
Appendix
Emphatic
Widow
18. A subject-oriented description
Justification
Process analysis
Executive
Spatial sequence
19. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Operation
Functional sequence
Feasibility reports
Compound-complex sentence
20. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Claim Letters
Informal reports
Nontech
Problem Solution (Method)
21. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Serif
Table of Contents
Jargon
Emphatic
22. 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.
Nontech
Service manuals
Feasibility report structure
Glossary
23. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Problem Solution (Method)
Memo
Descriptive
High tech doc
24. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Visuals
Informational reports
Informal reports
Sales
25. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Feasibility report structure
Primary audience
Spatial Method
Compound sentence
26. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Letters of inquiry
Service manuals
Process description
Business letter structure
27. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Gantt charts
Bar graphs
Informative
Informative Abstract
28. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Direct Pattern
Claim Letters
Visuals
Motivated Method
29. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Orphan
Glossary
Solicited
Temporal Method
30. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Informational reports
Semitechnical presentations
Reliability of source
Schematic diagrams
31. Should be determined before writing
Serif
Orphan
Etymology
Purpose and audience
32. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Laboratory reports
Formal reports
Unsolicited
Executive
33. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Problem Solution (Method)
Emphatic
Secondary source
Feasibility reports
34. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Service manuals
X-height
Technical writing
Instructions
35. 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
Spatial Method
Long proposals
Descender
Titles
36. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Audience analysis
Negation
Claim Letters
Business letter structure
37. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Parenthetical
Titles
Process narrative
Informative Abstract
38. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Job Application
Serif
Compound sentence
Definition by components
39. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Abstract
Temporal Method
Cause and effect
Visuals
40. 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.
Motivated Method
High tech doc
Abstract
Line graphs
41. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Descender
Parenthetical definition
Process narrative
Progress reports
42. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Negation
Bowl
Gantt charts
Informal reports
43. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inside address
Exploded diagrams
Inquiry Letters
Process analysis
44. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Compound-complex sentence
Feasibility reports
Process narrative
Expanded
45. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Process description
Process analysis
Resume
Ethical Tech
46. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Technical brief
Compound sentence
Unsolicited
Purpose and audience
47. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Solicited
Questions for feasibility report
Pictograms
Line graphs
48. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Pictograms
Sales
Flowchart
Topical Method
49. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Job Application
Topical Method
Process description
User manuals
50. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Bar graphs
Motivated Method
Hard evidence
Justification