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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
Solicited
Routine Internal
External document
Process narrative
2. A subject-oriented description
Process analysis
Table of Contents
Questions for progress report
Independent clause
3. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Glossary
Informative Abstract
Visuals
Laboratory reports
4. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Direct Pattern
Unsolicited
Primary audience
Appendix
5. Written step by step instructions
Job Application
Ascender
Sequential
Exploded diagrams
6. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Progress reports
Secondary source
Ascender
RFI
7. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Feasibility report structure
Informative
External document
Widow
8. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Abstract
Letters of inquiry
Black spaces
Secondary audience
9. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Descriptive
User manuals
Justification
Executive
10. Show trends and changes over time
Line graphs
Emphatic
Questions for feasibility report
Purpose and audience
11. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Expanded definition
Questions for feasibility report
Exploded diagrams
Ethical Tech
12. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Expanded
Parenthetical
Nontech
Informal reports
13. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Justification
Letters of complaint
Procedures
Compound sentence
14. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Soft evidence
Routine Internal
Bar graphs
Direct Pattern
15. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
X-height
Reliability of source
Process description
Motivated Method
16. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Jargon
Routine Internal
User manuals
Hard evidence
17. A single line carried over the top of a column
Process narrative
Widow
Pictograms
Subordinate clause
18. 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.
Motivated Method
Serif
Soft evidence
Reliability of source
19. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Abstract
Process analysis
Internal document
Bowl
20. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Hard evidence
Feasibility reports
Visuals
Cap height
21. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Process analysis
Jargon
Titles
Claim Letters
22. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Informative Abstract
Process analysis
Emphatic
Inquiry Letters
23. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Causal Method
Sales
Subordinate clause
External document
24. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Schematic diagrams
Laboratory reports
Process analysis
Process description
25. 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
Expanded
Working definition
Cause and effect
26. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Indirect pattern
Process analysis
Routine Internal
Conclusion
27. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Negation
X-height
Problem Solution (Method)
Archaic terms
28. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Causal Method
Expanded definition
Laboratory reports
Informative Abstract
29. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Definition by components
Compound sentence
Informational reports
X-height
30. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
User manuals
Gray spaces
Sentence
Descender
31. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Gantt charts
Bowl
Spatial sequence
Claim Letters
32. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Internal document
Soft evidence
Bowl
Sales
33. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Subordinate clause
Chronological sequence
Formal Internal
Inside address
34. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Secondary audience
Semitechnical presentations
Ethical Tech
Orphan
35. Hold graphics.
Jargon
Compound sentence
Closing
Black spaces
36. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Unsolicited
Appendix
Analytical reports
Secondary source
37. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
User manuals
Secondary source
Line graphs
Jargon
38. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Line graphs
Serif
Sequential
Etymology
39. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Informative Abstract
Exploded diagrams
Parenthetical
40. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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41. Describing how a mechanism works
Chronological sequence
Flowchart
Cap height
Functional sequence
42. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Informative
Solicited
External document
Gantt charts
43. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Formal reports
Technical writing
Letters of complaint
Line graphs
44. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Process description
Informational reports
X-height
High tech doc
45. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Claim Letters
Indirect pattern
Technical brief
Conclusion
46. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Routine Internal
Process narrative
Questions for progress report
47. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Serif
Definition by components
Letters of complaint
Ascender
48. An expert to another expert
User manuals
Semi tech
High tech doc
Laboratory reports
49. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Sentence definition
Semi tech
Formal reports
Descender
50. Areas that are occupied by text.
Solicited
Table of Contents
Formal Internal
Gray spaces