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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Informative
Indirect pattern
Topical Method
Grant
2. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Topical Method
External document
Temporal Method
Pictograms
3. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Feasibility report structure
Table of Contents
Expanded
X-height
4. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Chronological sequence
Process narrative
Informative
Expanded
5. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Long proposals
Descriptive Abstract
Nontech
Letters of complaint
6. Areas that are occupied by text.
High tech doc
Gray spaces
Reliability of source
Closing
7. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Audience analysis
Bar graphs
Parenthetical
Temporal Method
8. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Primary audience
Audience analysis
Informal reports
Parenthetical definition
9. Requests for information.
RFI
Executive
Informal reports
Internal document
10. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Definition by components
Audience analysis
Orphan
Technical brief
11. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Cause and effect
Secondary source
Technical brief
Conclusion
12. 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.
Parenthetical
Black spaces
Sentence
Expanded definition
13. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Letters of complaint
Cap height
Process description
Subordinate clause
14. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
X-height
Titles
Informative
Executive
15. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
Sentence definition
Tutorial
Closing
16. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound sentence
Cap height
Sentence definition
Process description
17. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Appendix
Definition by components
Technical writing
Formal Internal
18. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Titles
Analytical reports
Ethical Tech
Sentence
19. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Formal reports
Conclusion
Feasibility
Resume
20. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Orphan
Descriptive Abstract
Jargon
Conclusion
21. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Memo
Soft evidence
Internal document
Informal reports
22. Simplified description of a term.
Resume
Working definition
Direct Pattern
Instructions
23. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Secondary source
Routine Internal
Causal Method
Compound-complex sentence
24. Show trends and changes over time
Line graphs
Feasibility report structure
Gantt charts
Long proposals
25. Steps to complete a task
Informative
Parenthetical definition
Instructions
Sequential
26. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Working definition
Questions for feasibility report
Letters of inquiry
Process analysis
27. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Training manuals
Widow
Audience analysis
Semitechnical presentations
28. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Letters of inquiry
Informative Abstract
Process narrative
Expanded definition
29. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Spatial Method
Executive
Semi tech
Internal document
30. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Formal reports
Chronological sequence
Nontech
Spatial sequence
31. Hold graphics.
Black spaces
Long proposals
Process narrative
Job Application
32. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Informal reports
Justification
Sales
Bar graphs
33. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Serif
Business letter structure
RFI
Procedures
34. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Widow
Technical brief
Nontech
Independent clause
35. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Jargon
Justification
Negation
Audience analysis
36. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Letters of inquiry
Archaic terms
Informative Abstract
Internal document
37. Show steps in process
Conclusion
Informational reports
Abstract
Flowchart
38. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Serif
Training manuals
Informational reports
High tech doc
39. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Reliability of source
Training manuals
User manuals
Sentence definition
40. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Job Application
Memo
Descender
Widow
41. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Secondary audience
Procedures
Definition by components
Problem Solution (Method)
42. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Formal Internal
Primary audience
Descriptive
Soft evidence
43. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Sales
Executive
External document
Topical Method
44. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Service manuals
Executive
Solicited
Pictograms
45. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Job Application
Feasibility reports
Gray spaces
Nontech
46. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Functional sequence
Spatial Method
Feasibility report structure
Orphan
47. Should be determined before writing
Jargon
Purpose and audience
Primary audience
Informative Abstract
48. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Inquiry Letters
Operation
Letters of complaint
Archaic terms
49. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Claim Letters
Questions for progress report
Sales
Technical brief
50. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Justification
Solicited
Expanded definition
Compound sentence