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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Show trends and changes over time
Laboratory reports
Cause and effect
Line graphs
High tech doc
2. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Questions for progress report
Long proposals
Laboratory reports
Hard evidence
3. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Abstract
Serif
Primary audience
Executive
4. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Tutorial
Informational reports
Pictograms
Service manuals
5. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Descender
Solicited
Feasibility reports
Analytical reports
6. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Emphatic
Causal Method
Bowl
Training manuals
7. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Spatial sequence
Resume
Direct Pattern
Ascender
8. The height of the uppercase letters.
Cap height
Chronological sequence
Memo
Business letter structure
9. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Training manuals
Purpose and audience
Long proposals
Parenthetical
10. The origin of the word
Ascender
Etymology
Informal reports
Inside address
11. 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
Table of Contents
Line graphs
Secondary audience
12. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
High tech doc
Causal Method
Informal reports
Indirect pattern
13. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Reliability of source
RFI
Gray spaces
Nontech
14. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Ethical Tech
Closing
Emphatic
Secondary audience
15. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Subordinate clause
Inside address
Internal document
Emphatic
16. Steps to complete a task
Instructions
Semitechnical presentations
Causal Method
Feasibility reports
17. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Analytical reports
X-height
Gantt charts
Semitechnical presentations
18. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Titles
Justification
Orphan
Closing
19. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Executive
Expanded definition
Chronological sequence
Flowchart
20. An expert to another expert
High tech doc
Executive
Secondary source
Subordinate clause
21. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Questions for progress report
Flowchart
Closing
Table of Contents
22. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Archaic terms
Justification
Parenthetical definition
Descriptive Abstract
23. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Job Application
Line graphs
Titles
Audience analysis
24. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Analytical reports
Direct Pattern
Secondary audience
Primary source
25. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Widow
Visuals
Indirect pattern
Black spaces
26. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Letters of complaint
Line graphs
Cause and effect
Informative
27. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Memo
Ascender
Progress reports
Sales
28. Areas that are occupied by text.
Instructions
Schematic diagrams
Functional sequence
Gray spaces
29. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Formal reports
Informative Abstract
Informal reports
Primary source
30. Describing how a mechanism works
Feasibility
Claim Letters
Feasibility reports
Functional sequence
31. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Causal Method
Semi tech
Process analysis
Feasibility report structure
32. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Flowchart
Bowl
Descender
Purpose and audience
33. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Cap height
User manuals
Parenthetical
Training manuals
34. 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
Direct Pattern
Hard evidence
Problem Solution (Method)
35. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Claim Letters
Inquiry Letters
Reliability of source
Expanded
36. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Letters of inquiry
Jargon
Technical brief
Grant
37. Simplified description of a term.
Topical Method
Working definition
Claim Letters
Parenthetical definition
38. Show steps in process
Negation
Purpose and audience
Flowchart
Line graphs
39. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Primary audience
Instructions
Reliability of source
Grant
40. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Justification
Reliability of source
Letters of complaint
Purpose and audience
41. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Questions for feasibility report
Parenthetical definition
Semi tech
Informative
42. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Feasibility
RFI
Secondary source
Problem Solution (Method)
43. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Compound sentence
Training manuals
Audience analysis
Temporal Method
44. A subject-oriented description
Spatial sequence
Sentence definition
Orphan
Process analysis
45. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Abstract
Bar graphs
Negation
Table of Contents
46. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Grant
Closing
Executive
Descriptive
47. Written step by step instructions
Expanded
Table of Contents
Primary source
Sequential
48. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Ascender
Gray spaces
Sentence definition
Job Application
49. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Ascender
Gantt charts
Widow
Informational reports
50. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Primary audience
Visuals
Gantt charts
Independent clause