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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Compound sentence
Informal reports
Hard evidence
Secondary source
2. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Definition by components
Direct Pattern
Descender
Informal reports
3. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Conclusion
Informative
Operation
Laboratory reports
4. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Nontech
Secondary source
Black spaces
Questions for feasibility report
5. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Descriptive Abstract
Service manuals
Indirect pattern
Pictograms
6. Areas that are occupied by text.
Line graphs
Hard evidence
Process analysis
Gray spaces
7. 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.
Soft evidence
Glossary
Progress reports
Process description
8. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Working definition
Feasibility reports
Analytical reports
Line graphs
9. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Inside address
Primary source
Unsolicited
Executive
10. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Sequential
Audience analysis
Questions for feasibility report
Ascender
11. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Appendix
Training manuals
Cause and effect
Soft evidence
12. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Feasibility report structure
Spatial sequence
Unsolicited
Spatial Method
13. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Schematic diagrams
Informative Abstract
Technical writing
Unsolicited
14. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Business letter structure
Serif
Operation
Letters of inquiry
15. A single line carried over the top of a column
Conclusion
Descender
Primary source
Widow
16. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Letters of complaint
Nontech
Process analysis
Bar graphs
17. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Grant
Executive
Sequential
Gray spaces
18. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Procedures
Training manuals
Job Application
Sentence definition
19. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Subordinate clause
Expanded
Purpose and audience
Service manuals
20. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Subordinate clause
Secondary audience
Abstract
Sentence definition
21. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Resume
X-height
Sentence
User manuals
22. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Black spaces
Resume
Tutorial
Schematic diagrams
23. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Temporal Method
Job Application
Orphan
Serif
24. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Business letter structure
Table of Contents
Parenthetical definition
High tech doc
25. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Orphan
Cap height
Conclusion
Inquiry Letters
26. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Black spaces
Abstract
User manuals
Primary audience
27. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Descriptive
Internal document
Process description
Motivated Method
28. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Informal reports
Business letter structure
Primary source
Sentence definition
29. Written for skilled and unskilled
Training manuals
Etymology
User manuals
Descender
30. Simplified description of a term.
Progress reports
Working definition
Descriptive
Job Application
31. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Topical Method
Informative Abstract
Ethical Tech
Internal document
32. Show trends and changes over time
Descriptive
Parenthetical definition
Line graphs
Spatial sequence
33. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Audience analysis
Parenthetical
Routine Internal
Business letter structure
34. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Semitechnical presentations
Etymology
Jargon
Sentence definition
35. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Sales
Exploded diagrams
Formal Internal
Problem Solution (Method)
36. Describing how a mechanism works
Progress reports
Working definition
Informative Abstract
Functional sequence
37. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Orphan
Internal document
Independent clause
Cause and effect
38. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Secondary audience
Glossary
Analytical reports
Black spaces
39. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Feasibility
Negation
Questions for progress report
Process analysis
40. A subject-oriented description
Conclusion
Definition by components
Process analysis
Sales
41. Explaining how the item works
Operation
Inquiry Letters
Laboratory reports
Bowl
42. Show steps in process
Letters of complaint
Flowchart
Technical brief
Technical writing
43. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Subordinate clause
Emphatic
Analytical reports
Primary source
44. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Letters of inquiry
Reliability of source
Ethical Tech
Parenthetical
45. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Process analysis
Formal Internal
Emphatic
Visuals
46. The height of the uppercase letters.
Sales
Service manuals
Cap height
Inquiry Letters
47. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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48. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Informative
Problem Solution (Method)
Spatial sequence
Tutorial
49. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Process analysis
Justification
Feasibility
Compound-complex sentence
50. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Letters of complaint
Progress reports
Analytical reports
Ascender