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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Informal reports
Archaic terms
Descriptive
Inquiry Letters
2. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Direct Pattern
Informal reports
Orphan
Progress reports
3. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Parenthetical
Informative Abstract
Formal Internal
Questions for feasibility report
4. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Expanded definition
Process analysis
Indirect pattern
Internal document
5. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Feasibility
Negation
Titles
Soft evidence
6. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Sales
Glossary
Executive
Expanded
7. 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
Closing
Long proposals
Service manuals
Purpose and audience
8. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Orphan
X-height
Closing
Black spaces
9. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Laboratory reports
Feasibility
Black spaces
Problem Solution (Method)
10. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Line graphs
Secondary audience
Motivated Method
Technical brief
11. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Process narrative
Negation
Feasibility report structure
Process analysis
12. Explaining how the item works
Operation
Job Application
Secondary audience
RFI
13. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Questions for progress report
Semitechnical presentations
Analytical reports
Internal document
14. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Procedures
Indirect pattern
Abstract
Nontech
15. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Audience analysis
Sentence
Etymology
Jargon
16. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Glossary
Semi tech
Functional sequence
Descender
17. A subject-oriented description
Sentence definition
Process analysis
Sales
Sentence
18. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Emphatic
Nontech
Descender
Process description
19. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Primary audience
Inside address
Reliability of source
Motivated Method
20. Written step by step instructions
Definition by components
Secondary audience
Independent clause
Sequential
21. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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22. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Primary audience
Direct Pattern
Process description
Feasibility report structure
23. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Informal reports
Causal Method
Procedures
Table of Contents
24. Defines following this pattern: Indicate the item - what class it belongs to - and what makes it different than other in that class (if more than 4 terms) . Placed in glossary.
Solicited
Negation
Sentence
Causal Method
25. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Subordinate clause
Working definition
High tech doc
Resume
26. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Executive
Independent clause
Questions for progress report
Justification
27. Written for skilled and unskilled
Business letter structure
Procedures
User manuals
Process analysis
28. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Secondary audience
Gray spaces
Closing
Motivated Method
29. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Secondary source
Progress reports
Sentence
Sales
30. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Bar graphs
Informational reports
Analytical reports
Compound sentence
31. Show trends and changes over time
Problem Solution (Method)
Service manuals
Line graphs
Archaic terms
32. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Routine Internal
Reliability of source
Resume
Visuals
33. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Temporal Method
Letters of inquiry
Unsolicited
Job Application
34. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Flowchart
Expanded
User manuals
Exploded diagrams
35. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Feasibility reports
Instructions
Claim Letters
Grant
36. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Sentence definition
Questions for progress report
Technical writing
Descriptive Abstract
37. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Feasibility reports
Semi tech
Bowl
Executive
38. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Definition by components
Cause and effect
Formal Internal
Inquiry Letters
39. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Spatial Method
High tech doc
Table of Contents
Primary source
40. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Laboratory reports
Inside address
Formal Internal
Audience analysis
41. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Parenthetical definition
Compound-complex sentence
Compound sentence
Claim Letters
42. 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...
Appendix
Reliability of source
Secondary source
Archaic terms
43. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Primary audience
Hard evidence
Informative
Table of Contents
44. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Informative Abstract
Spatial sequence
Formal Internal
Primary source
45. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Appendix
Subordinate clause
Training manuals
Service manuals
46. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Cause and effect
Functional sequence
Bar graphs
Conclusion
47. Areas that are occupied by text.
Gray spaces
Feasibility
Independent clause
RFI
48. Self study guide for the users of the product
Cap height
Line graphs
Tutorial
Chronological sequence
49. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Direct Pattern
Procedures
Feasibility report structure
Sentence
50. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Ethical Tech
Ascender
Formal Internal
External document