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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Nontech
High tech doc
Bar graphs
Analytical reports
2. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Job Application
Feasibility reports
Temporal Method
Exploded diagrams
3. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Letters of inquiry
Service manuals
Laboratory reports
Bowl
4. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Serif
Archaic terms
Pictograms
Audience analysis
5. Simplified description of a term.
Feasibility
Working definition
Resume
Informative
6. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Topical Method
Bar graphs
Audience analysis
Instructions
7. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Unsolicited
Expanded definition
Temporal Method
Operator's manuals
8. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Black spaces
Working definition
Emphatic
Orphan
9. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Archaic terms
Technical brief
Expanded
Motivated Method
10. Self study guide for the users of the product
Grant
Chronological sequence
Expanded
Tutorial
11. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Ethical Tech
Process description
Cause and effect
Independent clause
12. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Subordinate clause
Titles
Letters of inquiry
Feasibility reports
13. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Etymology
Secondary source
Job Application
Sentence
14. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Schematic diagrams
Archaic terms
Conclusion
Serif
15. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Negation
Topical Method
Claim Letters
Working definition
16. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Direct Pattern
High tech doc
Semi tech
Problem Solution (Method)
17. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Causal Method
Inquiry Letters
Descriptive
Operator's manuals
18. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Feasibility reports
Letters of inquiry
Hard evidence
Process description
19. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Motivated Method
Compound-complex sentence
Indirect pattern
Justification
20. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Sequential
Sentence definition
Sentence
Justification
21. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Direct Pattern
Definition by components
Glossary
Informational reports
22. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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23. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Formal reports
Sales
Tutorial
Problem Solution (Method)
24. An expert to another expert
Black spaces
High tech doc
Executive
Descriptive Abstract
25. 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.
Glossary
Problem Solution (Method)
X-height
Questions for feasibility report
26. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Descriptive
Widow
Glossary
Informative Abstract
27. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Line graphs
Long proposals
Pictograms
Spatial sequence
28. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Internal document
Schematic diagrams
Expanded
Negation
29. Written for skilled and unskilled
User manuals
Informative Abstract
Feasibility report structure
Temporal Method
30. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Spatial sequence
Informal reports
Technical writing
RFI
31. Describing how a mechanism works
Functional sequence
Spatial sequence
Sentence definition
Nontech
32. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Independent clause
Spatial sequence
Descriptive
Emphatic
33. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Procedures
Reliability of source
Letters of inquiry
Progress reports
34. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
X-height
Flowchart
Job Application
Executive
35. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Letters of inquiry
Claim Letters
Procedures
Parenthetical
36. Hold graphics.
External document
Parenthetical
Inquiry Letters
Black spaces
37. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Solicited
Compound-complex sentence
Direct Pattern
Technical brief
38. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Analytical reports
Sequential
Sales
Purpose and audience
39. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Feasibility report structure
Table of Contents
Spatial sequence
Ethical Tech
40. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Tutorial
Purpose and audience
Parenthetical
Emphatic
41. 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.
Temporal Method
Sentence
Routine Internal
Purpose and audience
42. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Procedures
Letters of complaint
Soft evidence
Spatial sequence
43. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Tutorial
Primary audience
Abstract
Jargon
44. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Indirect pattern
Technical writing
Glossary
Working definition
45. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Executive
Flowchart
Spatial Method
Subordinate clause
46. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Cap height
Direct Pattern
Abstract
Topical Method
47. Requests for information.
Secondary source
RFI
Sales
Secondary audience
48. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Jargon
Topical Method
X-height
Primary audience
49. 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.
Topical Method
RFI
Flowchart
Motivated Method
50. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Resume
Secondary audience
Informational reports
Pictograms