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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Semitechnical presentations
Reliability of source
Questions for progress report
Gray spaces
2. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Problem Solution (Method)
Semi tech
Glossary
Conclusion
3. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Sales
Problem Solution (Method)
Bar graphs
Conclusion
4. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Negation
Feasibility reports
Sequential
Informative
5. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Process description
Expanded definition
Titles
Progress reports
6. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Parenthetical
External document
Training manuals
Formal reports
7. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Procedures
Sales
User manuals
Parenthetical definition
8. Describing how a mechanism works
Tutorial
Direct Pattern
Causal Method
Functional sequence
9. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Archaic terms
Gray spaces
Claim Letters
Nontech
10. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Formal Internal
Descender
Routine Internal
Instructions
11. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Questions for progress report
Operator's manuals
Memo
Secondary source
12. An expert to another expert
Closing
Operator's manuals
High tech doc
Primary source
13. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Spatial sequence
Instructions
Gray spaces
Jargon
14. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
High tech doc
Compound sentence
Operation
Appendix
15. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Compound sentence
Inside address
Spatial Method
Pictograms
16. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Spatial sequence
Long proposals
Sequential
Secondary audience
17. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Indirect pattern
Secondary source
Expanded definition
Informal reports
18. Show trends and changes over time
Jargon
Inquiry Letters
Line graphs
Problem Solution (Method)
19. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Solicited
Sales
Informative Abstract
Executive
20. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Descriptive
Progress reports
Primary audience
Job Application
21. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Subordinate clause
Informative
Temporal Method
Internal document
22. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Descriptive Abstract
Technical writing
Secondary audience
Hard evidence
23. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Questions for feasibility report
Etymology
Widow
RFI
24. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Informative
External document
Secondary audience
Pictograms
25. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Archaic terms
Independent clause
Feasibility report structure
Semitechnical presentations
26. A subject-oriented description
Descender
Subordinate clause
Process analysis
Grant
27. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Audience analysis
Ascender
Progress reports
Table of Contents
28. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Technical writing
Emphatic
Expanded
High tech doc
29. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Tutorial
Archaic terms
Informal reports
Grant
30. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Table of Contents
Informational reports
Compound-complex sentence
Negation
31. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Training manuals
Indirect pattern
Business letter structure
Audience analysis
32. 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
Sentence definition
Informal reports
Exploded diagrams
33. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Primary source
Indirect pattern
Technical brief
RFI
34. Should be determined before writing
Purpose and audience
Job Application
Secondary source
Functional sequence
35. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Formal reports
Independent clause
Expanded definition
Sentence definition
36. Self study guide for the users of the product
User manuals
Tutorial
Long proposals
Primary audience
37. Requests for information.
RFI
Independent clause
Chronological sequence
Process description
38. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Spatial sequence
Inside address
Etymology
Subordinate clause
39. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Closing
Inside address
Semi tech
Formal reports
40. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Sales
Semitechnical presentations
Emphatic
Secondary audience
41. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Formal Internal
Abstract
Spatial sequence
Service manuals
42. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Process analysis
Solicited
Problem Solution (Method)
Expanded definition
43. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
External document
Compound sentence
Routine Internal
Business letter structure
44. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Expanded definition
Technical writing
Business letter structure
Memo
45. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Justification
Visuals
Pictograms
Direct Pattern
46. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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47. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Gray spaces
Training manuals
Job Application
Table of Contents
48. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Appendix
Compound sentence
Ascender
Exploded diagrams
49. Explaining how the item works
Widow
Temporal Method
Reliability of source
Operation
50. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Ascender
Line graphs
Technical brief
Primary source