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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
External document
Expanded definition
Serif
Closing
2. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Spatial Method
Bar graphs
Ethical Tech
Feasibility reports
3. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Questions for feasibility report
Semitechnical presentations
Analytical reports
Line graphs
4. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Procedures
Problem Solution (Method)
Sentence definition
Operation
5. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Feasibility
Questions for feasibility report
Parenthetical
X-height
6. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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7. Written step by step instructions
Sequential
Titles
Inquiry Letters
Functional sequence
8. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Bowl
Bar graphs
Feasibility
Claim Letters
9. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Descriptive
Archaic terms
Procedures
Sentence
10. Simplified description of a term.
Business letter structure
Working definition
Titles
Gantt charts
11. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Process narrative
Chronological sequence
Informal reports
Procedures
12. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Temporal Method
Ascender
Operator's manuals
Parenthetical definition
13. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Process analysis
Causal Method
Ethical Tech
14. A subject-oriented description
Etymology
Process analysis
Audience analysis
Nontech
15. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Compound sentence
Causal Method
Jargon
Serif
16. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Business letter structure
Descender
Appendix
Definition by components
17. A single line carried over the top of a column
Parenthetical definition
Widow
Sentence definition
Cap height
18. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Working definition
Formal reports
Questions for progress report
Bar graphs
19. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Reliability of source
External document
Claim Letters
Gray spaces
20. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Cause and effect
Indirect pattern
Inside address
Widow
21. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Reliability of source
Solicited
Titles
Emphatic
22. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Formal reports
Sales
Hard evidence
Exploded diagrams
23. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Expanded definition
Table of Contents
Instructions
Appendix
24. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Parenthetical
Topical Method
Informative
Operation
25. Should be determined before writing
External document
Chronological sequence
Jargon
Purpose and audience
26. Hold graphics.
Independent clause
Black spaces
Sentence definition
Claim Letters
27. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Serif
Primary audience
Appendix
Sentence
28. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Unsolicited
Archaic terms
Orphan
Visuals
29. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Pictograms
Descender
Working definition
Laboratory reports
30. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Formal Internal
Feasibility reports
Justification
Parenthetical definition
31. Show trends and changes over time
Justification
Independent clause
Line graphs
Parenthetical
32. Written for skilled and unskilled
Service manuals
Purpose and audience
User manuals
Gray spaces
33. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Visuals
Justification
Executive
Service manuals
34. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Sentence definition
Subordinate clause
Analytical reports
Process description
35. 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.
Descender
Procedures
Bowl
Glossary
36. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Compound-complex sentence
Inside address
Questions for progress report
Emphatic
37. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Primary audience
Nontech
Claim Letters
Analytical reports
38. Describing how a mechanism works
Subordinate clause
Nontech
Schematic diagrams
Functional sequence
39. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Conclusion
Causal Method
Memo
Justification
40. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Unsolicited
Training manuals
Definition by components
Working definition
41. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Executive
Black spaces
Parenthetical definition
Soft evidence
42. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
X-height
Bowl
Secondary audience
Conclusion
43. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Compound-complex sentence
Feasibility report structure
Titles
Process narrative
44. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Operation
Conclusion
Letters of complaint
Closing
45. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Process description
Expanded definition
Letters of inquiry
Spatial Method
46. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Compound-complex sentence
Descender
Direct Pattern
Questions for feasibility report
47. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Inquiry Letters
Expanded definition
Questions for feasibility report
Routine Internal
48. Explaining how the item works
Analytical reports
Topical Method
Motivated Method
Operation
49. The height of the uppercase letters.
Spatial sequence
Cap height
Laboratory reports
Process description
50. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Causal Method
Unsolicited
Descender
Cap height
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