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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Expanded definition
Audience analysis
Training manuals
Spatial Method
2. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Expanded
Primary audience
Spatial Method
Formal Internal
3. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Spatial sequence
Informational reports
Chronological sequence
Titles
4. 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.
Solicited
Black spaces
Ascender
Sentence
5. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
RFI
Serif
Nontech
Technical writing
6. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Pictograms
Analytical reports
Informal reports
Procedures
7. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Semitechnical presentations
Questions for progress report
Closing
Job Application
8. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Primary source
Ascender
Descriptive Abstract
Parenthetical definition
9. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Long proposals
X-height
Jargon
Secondary audience
10. Requests for information.
RFI
Pictograms
Reliability of source
Training manuals
11. Simplified description of a term.
Working definition
Chronological sequence
High tech doc
Independent clause
12. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound-complex sentence
Compound sentence
Line graphs
Causal Method
13. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Service manuals
Job Application
Pictograms
Nontech
14. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Widow
Semi tech
Claim Letters
Questions for feasibility report
15. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Informal reports
Tutorial
Glossary
Descender
16. 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
Motivated Method
Analytical reports
Cause and effect
17. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Formal reports
Informational reports
Orphan
Service manuals
18. A single line carried over the top of a column
Expanded
Widow
Solicited
Flowchart
19. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Functional sequence
Ascender
Problem Solution (Method)
X-height
20. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Bowl
Secondary source
Formal reports
Sentence definition
21. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Direct Pattern
Definition by components
Orphan
Purpose and audience
22. 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.
Black spaces
Motivated Method
Descender
Causal Method
23. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Justification
Procedures
Emphatic
Visuals
24. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Ascender
Schematic diagrams
Pictograms
Direct Pattern
25. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
RFI
Exploded diagrams
Bar graphs
Direct Pattern
26. An expert to another expert
Descender
X-height
Etymology
High tech doc
27. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
Claim Letters
Letters of inquiry
External document
Inquiry Letters
28. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Schematic diagrams
Descriptive Abstract
Executive
Conclusion
29. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Bowl
Expanded
Hard evidence
Inquiry Letters
30. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Laboratory reports
Archaic terms
Table of Contents
Justification
31. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Ascender
Nontech
Process analysis
Process narrative
32. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Business letter structure
Secondary audience
Grant
Informative
33. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Executive
Semitechnical presentations
Formal Internal
X-height
34. 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
Expanded definition
Exploded diagrams
Definition by components
35. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Gantt charts
Ascender
Technical brief
36. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Definition by components
Problem Solution (Method)
Letters of complaint
Feasibility reports
37. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Memo
Feasibility report structure
Appendix
Technical brief
38. Show steps in process
Audience analysis
Visuals
Flowchart
Subordinate clause
39. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Independent clause
External document
Table of Contents
Soft evidence
40. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Hard evidence
Direct Pattern
Training manuals
Causal Method
41. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Reliability of source
Internal document
Training manuals
Appendix
42. The origin of the word
Sentence definition
Process description
Etymology
Letters of complaint
43. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Spatial sequence
Semi tech
Temporal Method
Conclusion
44. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Expanded
Glossary
Abstract
Topical Method
45. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Sentence definition
Justification
Business letter structure
Pictograms
46. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Primary source
User manuals
X-height
Motivated Method
47. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Unsolicited
Feasibility
Procedures
Line graphs
48. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Emphatic
Descriptive Abstract
User manuals
Long proposals
49. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Sales
Primary audience
Progress reports
Causal Method
50. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Technical brief
Bar graphs
Negation
Service manuals