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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Long proposals
Ascender
Closing
Justification
2. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Service manuals
Parenthetical
Nontech
Sales
3. Simplified description of a term.
Sentence definition
Serif
Working definition
Gantt charts
4. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Job Application
Primary source
Process narrative
Direct Pattern
5. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Ascender
Definition by components
Chronological sequence
Internal document
6. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Primary source
Bar graphs
Appendix
User manuals
7. 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...
Feasibility report structure
Service manuals
Operator's manuals
Appendix
8. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Descriptive
Business letter structure
Inside address
Process narrative
9. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Tutorial
Bowl
Ascender
Feasibility
10. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
External document
Closing
Parenthetical definition
Letters of inquiry
11. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Semi tech
Visuals
Sentence definition
Serif
12. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Descriptive Abstract
Visuals
Informal reports
Operation
13. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Semitechnical presentations
Primary source
Expanded definition
Training manuals
14. Steps to complete a task
Ethical Tech
Formal reports
Instructions
Independent clause
15. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Job Application
Progress reports
Questions for progress report
Causal Method
16. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
Hard evidence
Flowchart
Direct Pattern
17. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Descender
Motivated Method
Service manuals
Letters of complaint
18. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Internal document
Sequential
Formal reports
Technical brief
19. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Training manuals
Internal document
X-height
Problem Solution (Method)
20. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Bar graphs
Informative Abstract
Negation
Technical writing
21. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Resume
Secondary source
Working definition
Topical Method
22. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Subordinate clause
Grant
Unsolicited
Bar graphs
23. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Cause and effect
Letters of inquiry
Expanded definition
Compound-complex sentence
24. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Bar graphs
Claim Letters
Cause and effect
Spatial Method
25. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Semi tech
Secondary source
Instructions
Compound sentence
26. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Widow
Soft evidence
Memo
Emphatic
27. External proposal written not in any response to anything
High tech doc
Unsolicited
Spatial sequence
Definition by components
28. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Justification
Informal reports
Audience analysis
Gantt charts
29. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Process description
Unsolicited
Indirect pattern
Technical brief
30. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Temporal Method
Hard evidence
Informative
Questions for progress report
31. Show steps in process
Flowchart
Gray spaces
Table of Contents
Topical Method
32. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Descriptive Abstract
Compound sentence
Negation
Orphan
33. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Definition by components
Formal Internal
Inquiry Letters
Serif
34. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Ethical Tech
Feasibility report structure
Problem Solution (Method)
Descender
35. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Analytical reports
Bar graphs
Bowl
X-height
36. 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
Negation
Archaic terms
Cap height
37. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Chronological sequence
Questions for feasibility report
Bar graphs
Process description
38. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Nontech
Formal Internal
Claim Letters
Descriptive
39. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Compound-complex sentence
Appendix
Training manuals
Causal Method
40. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Feasibility reports
Temporal Method
Descender
Negation
41. Hold graphics.
Justification
Grant
Black spaces
Descriptive
42. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Negation
Operator's manuals
Routine Internal
Semi tech
43. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Functional sequence
Flowchart
Informal reports
Technical brief
44. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Temporal Method
Spatial sequence
Long proposals
Sales
45. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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46. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Long proposals
Compound sentence
Parenthetical definition
Serif
47. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Semitechnical presentations
Solicited
Widow
Chronological sequence
48. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Subordinate clause
Sales
Operation
Compound-complex sentence
49. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Sentence definition
Black spaces
Operation
Informational reports
50. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Closing
Questions for progress report
Sentence definition
Expanded definition