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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Executive
Abstract
Cap height
Serif
2. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Schematic diagrams
Compound-complex sentence
Functional sequence
Operation
3. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Flowchart
Chronological sequence
Titles
Ascender
4. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Informational reports
Gray spaces
Emphatic
Resume
5. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Feasibility
Compound-complex sentence
Informal reports
Technical brief
6. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Exploded diagrams
Topical Method
Memo
Gantt charts
7. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Cause and effect
Etymology
Sequential
Procedures
8. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Feasibility reports
Subordinate clause
Causal Method
Topical Method
9. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Problem Solution (Method)
Questions for feasibility report
Indirect pattern
Questions for progress report
10. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Informative
Glossary
Descender
Abstract
11. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Cause and effect
Semi tech
Laboratory reports
Temporal Method
12. Describing how a mechanism works
Emphatic
Expanded
Functional sequence
Primary audience
13. An expert to another expert
Audience analysis
High tech doc
Independent clause
User manuals
14. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Questions for feasibility report
Semitechnical presentations
Archaic terms
X-height
15. The origin of the word
Cause and effect
Questions for progress report
Etymology
Descender
16. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Hard evidence
Operator's manuals
Claim Letters
Grant
17. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Closing
Motivated Method
Causal Method
18. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Instructions
Informational reports
Orphan
Inquiry Letters
19. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Instructions
Informative
Working definition
Spatial Method
20. 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
Feasibility reports
Conclusion
Soft evidence
21. Steps to complete a task
Executive
Formal reports
Instructions
Definition by components
22. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Feasibility reports
Training manuals
Process narrative
Formal reports
23. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Chronological sequence
Descriptive Abstract
Feasibility report structure
Functional sequence
24. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Formal Internal
Memo
X-height
Archaic terms
25. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Gray spaces
Technical brief
Justification
Hard evidence
26. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Expanded
Memo
Unsolicited
Training manuals
27. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Technical writing
Business letter structure
Widow
Problem Solution (Method)
28. Simplified description of a term.
Spatial sequence
Working definition
Flowchart
High tech doc
29. Written step by step instructions
Sequential
Pictograms
Spatial sequence
Descriptive Abstract
30. 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.
Line graphs
Temporal Method
Descriptive
Motivated Method
31. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Claim Letters
Operator's manuals
Technical writing
Descriptive Abstract
32. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Solicited
Grant
Glossary
Formal Internal
33. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Reliability of source
Internal document
Informational reports
Indirect pattern
34. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Sequential
Process narrative
Compound-complex sentence
Informational reports
35. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Nontech
Independent clause
Orphan
Line graphs
36. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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37. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Ascender
Reliability of source
Parenthetical
Negation
38. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Technical writing
Conclusion
Serif
Bowl
39. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Flowchart
Formal Internal
Independent clause
Operator's manuals
40. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Ethical Tech
Internal document
Sequential
Technical writing
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.
Bowl
Jargon
Sentence
Semi tech
42. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Job Application
Cause and effect
Internal document
Parenthetical definition
43. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Claim Letters
Topical Method
Reliability of source
Exploded diagrams
44. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Resume
Soft evidence
Routine Internal
Orphan
45. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Problem Solution (Method)
Compound sentence
Gray spaces
Semitechnical presentations
46. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Business letter structure
Parenthetical
Chronological sequence
Long proposals
47. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
X-height
Audience analysis
Feasibility reports
Parenthetical definition
48. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Compound-complex sentence
Audience analysis
Inside address
Visuals
49. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Sequential
Operation
Claim Letters
Soft evidence
50. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Ascender
Reliability of source
Nontech
Service manuals