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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Explaining how the item works
Informative Abstract
Operation
Sequential
Glossary
2. The height of the uppercase letters.
Sales
Nontech
Informative
Cap height
3. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Flowchart
Secondary source
Subordinate clause
Letters of complaint
4. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Informal reports
Spatial Method
Tutorial
Informative Abstract
5. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Line graphs
Bar graphs
Sales
Conclusion
6. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Indirect pattern
Closing
Conclusion
Long proposals
7. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Serif
Nontech
Operator's manuals
Definition by components
8. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Archaic terms
Gray spaces
Schematic diagrams
Cause and effect
9. Written for skilled and unskilled
Instructions
Chronological sequence
High tech doc
User manuals
10. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Claim Letters
Orphan
Memo
Justification
11. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Sentence definition
Jargon
Gray spaces
Procedures
12. 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.
Questions for feasibility report
Unsolicited
Glossary
Informational reports
13. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Functional sequence
Technical brief
Flowchart
Process description
14. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Visuals
Spatial sequence
Operation
Routine Internal
15. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Direct Pattern
Gantt charts
Negation
Reliability of source
16. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Black spaces
Direct Pattern
Sequential
Independent clause
17. 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
Bowl
Informal reports
Long proposals
Primary audience
18. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Audience analysis
Semi tech
Questions for progress report
Resume
19. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Sentence definition
Descriptive Abstract
Routine Internal
Etymology
20. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Nontech
Spatial sequence
Primary audience
Secondary audience
21. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Gray spaces
Analytical reports
Inquiry Letters
Jargon
22. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Operation
Table of Contents
Compound-complex sentence
Jargon
23. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Descriptive Abstract
Business letter structure
Informational reports
Routine Internal
24. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Sentence definition
Executive
Business letter structure
Sequential
25. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Exploded diagrams
Hard evidence
Job Application
Sales
26. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Flowchart
Bowl
Temporal Method
Executive
27. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
External document
Etymology
Abstract
Semi tech
28. Should be determined before writing
Formal reports
Compound sentence
Purpose and audience
Soft evidence
29. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Job Application
Letters of inquiry
User manuals
Compound sentence
30. A single line carried over the top of a column
Inquiry Letters
Widow
Table of Contents
Line graphs
31. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Parenthetical
Technical brief
Exploded diagrams
Inquiry Letters
32. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Questions for feasibility report
Emphatic
Causal Method
Temporal Method
33. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Temporal Method
X-height
High tech doc
Progress reports
34. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Direct Pattern
Spatial Method
Causal Method
Nontech
35. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Indirect pattern
Causal Method
Training manuals
Operation
36. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Executive
Gray spaces
Table of Contents
Inside address
37. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Informative
Ascender
Job Application
Operation
38. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Sentence
Spatial Method
External document
Formal Internal
39. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Routine Internal
Ascender
High tech doc
Orphan
40. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Black spaces
Titles
RFI
Secondary audience
41. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Operator's manuals
Procedures
Black spaces
Inside address
42. 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.
Sentence
Semitechnical presentations
Process description
Flowchart
43. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Titles
Visuals
Analytical reports
Appendix
44. Areas that are occupied by text.
Parenthetical
Cap height
External document
Gray spaces
45. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
User manuals
Claim Letters
Emphatic
Analytical reports
46. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Long proposals
RFI
Justification
Technical brief
47. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Causal Method
Etymology
Expanded
Negation
48. Simplified description of a term.
Conclusion
Reliability of source
Working definition
Expanded definition
49. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Descender
Archaic terms
Operator's manuals
Ethical Tech
50. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Analytical reports
Subordinate clause
Primary source
Laboratory reports