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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Informal reports
Gray spaces
Parenthetical definition
Secondary audience
2. The origin of the word
Questions for feasibility report
X-height
Etymology
Sales
3. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Executive
Causal Method
Subordinate clause
Process analysis
4. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Sentence definition
Visuals
Unsolicited
Topical Method
5. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Formal reports
Temporal Method
Definition by components
Emphatic
6. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Job Application
Secondary audience
Memo
Formal reports
7. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Internal document
Bar graphs
Glossary
8. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Serif
Temporal Method
Semitechnical presentations
Spatial sequence
9. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Line graphs
User manuals
Executive
Ethical Tech
10. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inquiry Letters
Executive
Letters of complaint
Working definition
11. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Archaic terms
Feasibility
Reliability of source
Closing
12. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
Pictograms
Routine Internal
RFI
13. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Glossary
Questions for feasibility report
Orphan
Service manuals
14. Show trends and changes over time
Schematic diagrams
Line graphs
Formal Internal
Primary source
15. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Gantt charts
Flowchart
Ascender
Secondary source
16. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Feasibility reports
Sentence definition
Informational reports
Feasibility report structure
17. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Causal Method
Closing
Operation
User manuals
18. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Functional sequence
Process description
Motivated Method
Technical brief
19. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Nontech
Serif
Long proposals
Formal reports
20. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Compound-complex sentence
Process narrative
Serif
Cause and effect
21. Written for skilled and unskilled
Soft evidence
User manuals
Negation
Hard evidence
22. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Questions for feasibility report
Solicited
Feasibility report structure
Ethical Tech
23. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Nontech
Secondary audience
Cause and effect
Negation
24. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Justification
Feasibility
Orphan
Feasibility reports
25. A single line carried over the top of a column
Widow
Independent clause
Orphan
Internal document
26. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Parenthetical
External document
Reliability of source
Titles
27. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Long proposals
Jargon
Descender
Resume
28. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Semi tech
Visuals
Inside address
Sales
29. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Working definition
Process narrative
Emphatic
Inside address
30. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Gantt charts
Table of Contents
Operator's manuals
Flowchart
31. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Operation
Routine Internal
Laboratory reports
Compound-complex sentence
32. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Secondary audience
Primary audience
Expanded
Analytical reports
33. Should be determined before writing
Purpose and audience
Tutorial
User manuals
Resume
34. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Informal reports
Sentence definition
Descriptive Abstract
Compound sentence
35. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Temporal Method
Letters of inquiry
Progress reports
Expanded
36. Written step by step instructions
Sequential
Widow
Training manuals
Informal reports
37. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Compound-complex sentence
Conclusion
Informative Abstract
Semi tech
38. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Subordinate clause
Informative
RFI
Grant
39. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Business letter structure
Questions for progress report
Feasibility reports
Temporal Method
40. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Archaic terms
Black spaces
Semitechnical presentations
Laboratory reports
41. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Definition by components
Orphan
Abstract
Reliability of source
42. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Formal reports
Parenthetical
Descender
Sequential
43. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Letters of inquiry
Secondary source
Sentence
Grant
44. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Long proposals
Expanded definition
Procedures
Resume
45. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Abstract
Parenthetical definition
Justification
Expanded
46. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Problem Solution (Method)
Gray spaces
Audience analysis
Expanded definition
47. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Descender
Schematic diagrams
RFI
Solicited
48. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Exploded diagrams
Etymology
Ascender
Schematic diagrams
49. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Secondary audience
Chronological sequence
Technical brief
Orphan
50. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Claim Letters
Process description
Emphatic
Process narrative