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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
Line graphs
Negation
Reliability of source
Expanded definition
2. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Audience analysis
Widow
Formal reports
Table of Contents
3. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
X-height
Hard evidence
Table of Contents
Cap height
4. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Spatial Method
External document
Laboratory reports
Glossary
5. Areas that are occupied by text.
Resume
Bar graphs
Gray spaces
Informative
6. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Nontech
Inquiry Letters
Schematic diagrams
Grant
7. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Emphatic
Analytical reports
Unsolicited
Secondary audience
8. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Orphan
Descender
Descriptive Abstract
Conclusion
9. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Executive
Expanded definition
Compound sentence
Audience analysis
10. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Black spaces
Emphatic
Nontech
Glossary
11. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Solicited
Questions for feasibility report
Process narrative
Tutorial
12. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Descriptive
Justification
Soft evidence
Process description
13. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
14. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Business letter structure
Inquiry Letters
Unsolicited
Process description
15. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Gantt charts
Spatial Method
Functional sequence
Business letter structure
16. An expert to another expert
Claim Letters
High tech doc
Problem Solution (Method)
Resume
17. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Glossary
Indirect pattern
Service manuals
Abstract
18. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Grant
Primary audience
Chronological sequence
Negation
19. A subject-oriented description
Black spaces
Process analysis
Executive
Line graphs
20. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Sentence definition
Hard evidence
Memo
Tutorial
21. Self study guide for the users of the product
Executive
Tutorial
Chronological sequence
Sentence definition
22. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Titles
Primary source
Visuals
Informative Abstract
23. Written for skilled and unskilled
Tutorial
Problem Solution (Method)
User manuals
Black spaces
24. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Inside address
Formal reports
Questions for progress report
Gray spaces
25. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Expanded
Descender
Informal reports
Direct Pattern
26. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound-complex sentence
Resume
Etymology
Process description
27. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
User manuals
External document
Feasibility
Soft evidence
28. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Topical Method
Glossary
Memo
Unsolicited
29. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Technical brief
Progress reports
Reliability of source
External document
30. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Subordinate clause
Negation
Hard evidence
Indirect pattern
31. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
Hard evidence
Parenthetical definition
Tutorial
32. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Reliability of source
Descender
Definition by components
Training manuals
33. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Ascender
Parenthetical definition
Questions for progress report
Feasibility report structure
34. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Letters of complaint
Direct Pattern
Informative
Questions for feasibility report
35. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Secondary source
Parenthetical definition
Informative
Informational reports
36. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Ethical Tech
Compound sentence
Routine Internal
Feasibility report structure
37. Written step by step instructions
Gantt charts
Sequential
Jargon
X-height
38. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Inquiry Letters
Technical brief
Visuals
Semi tech
39. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Inside address
Feasibility report structure
Expanded
Secondary source
40. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Subordinate clause
Feasibility report structure
Training manuals
Black spaces
41. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Informative Abstract
Compound-complex sentence
Primary audience
Direct Pattern
42. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
External document
Gray spaces
Descender
Resume
43. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Expanded
Compound sentence
Informative
Subordinate clause
44. 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...
Direct Pattern
Appendix
Hard evidence
Topical Method
45. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Gantt charts
RFI
Unsolicited
Descender
46. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Appendix
Informative
Gray spaces
Internal document
47. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Semi tech
Technical brief
User manuals
Justification
48. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Letters of inquiry
Expanded
Negation
Analytical reports
49. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Internal document
Motivated Method
Training manuals
Analytical reports
50. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Memo
Archaic terms
Appendix
Definition by components