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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. The height of the uppercase letters.
Widow
Letters of complaint
Technical brief
Cap height
2. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Gantt charts
Business letter structure
Ethical Tech
Working definition
3. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Descriptive
Schematic diagrams
User manuals
Analytical reports
4. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Black spaces
Justification
Memo
5. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound sentence
Descriptive Abstract
External document
Reliability of source
6. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Emphatic
Letters of inquiry
Cap height
Exploded diagrams
7. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Conclusion
Claim Letters
Feasibility
Inquiry Letters
8. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
Direct Pattern
Flowchart
External document
Formal Internal
9. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
X-height
Descriptive
Bowl
Letters of inquiry
10. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Hard evidence
Compound-complex sentence
Purpose and audience
Topical Method
11. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Formal Internal
Sequential
Inquiry Letters
Gray spaces
12. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Inquiry Letters
Semi tech
Operator's manuals
Letters of complaint
13. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Service manuals
Questions for progress report
Informal reports
Formal Internal
14. An expert to another expert
High tech doc
Descriptive
Service manuals
Indirect pattern
15. Written for skilled and unskilled
Training manuals
Progress reports
Service manuals
User manuals
16. The origin of the word
Etymology
Direct Pattern
Business letter structure
Flowchart
17. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
RFI
Grant
Secondary audience
Expanded
18. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
User manuals
Hard evidence
Independent clause
19. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Technical writing
Sales
Grant
Sentence definition
20. Self study guide for the users of the product
Tutorial
Soft evidence
Working definition
Secondary source
21. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Questions for progress report
Direct Pattern
High tech doc
22. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Resume
Inside address
Orphan
Subordinate clause
23. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Process description
Definition by components
Executive
Pictograms
24. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Cause and effect
Business letter structure
Glossary
Procedures
25. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Resume
Inside address
Flowchart
Semi tech
26. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Flowchart
Long proposals
Resume
Schematic diagrams
27. Should be determined before writing
Widow
Tutorial
Purpose and audience
Training manuals
28. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Temporal Method
Justification
Primary source
Definition by components
29. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Table of Contents
Titles
Secondary source
Analytical reports
30. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Routine Internal
Unsolicited
Compound-complex sentence
RFI
31. 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
Long proposals
Definition by components
Purpose and audience
Schematic diagrams
32. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Memo
Informational reports
Inquiry Letters
Descriptive Abstract
33. A single line carried over the top of a column
Semitechnical presentations
Compound sentence
Widow
Secondary source
34. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Line graphs
Sentence definition
Resume
Problem Solution (Method)
35. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Visuals
Expanded
Descriptive Abstract
Cap height
36. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Process description
Semitechnical presentations
RFI
Topical Method
37. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Sentence
Pictograms
Archaic terms
Hard evidence
38. 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.
Parenthetical definition
Motivated Method
Flowchart
External document
39. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Subordinate clause
Chronological sequence
Operation
Process narrative
40. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Direct Pattern
Hard evidence
Causal Method
Spatial sequence
41. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Nontech
Parenthetical
Bowl
Causal Method
42. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Indirect pattern
Questions for feasibility report
Procedures
Technical brief
43. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
User manuals
Line graphs
Flowchart
Chronological sequence
44. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Parenthetical definition
Archaic terms
Descender
Expanded definition
45. Hold graphics.
Sequential
Table of Contents
Definition by components
Black spaces
46. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Table of Contents
Feasibility
Memo
Temporal Method
47. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Informative Abstract
Sentence
Emphatic
Spatial sequence
48. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Formal reports
Claim Letters
Internal document
Technical writing
49. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Formal Internal
Etymology
Grant
Appendix
50. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Process description
Temporal Method
Titles
X-height
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