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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A subject-oriented description
Questions for feasibility report
Glossary
Purpose and audience
Process analysis
2. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Parenthetical
Operation
Indirect pattern
Formal reports
3. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Questions for feasibility report
Nontech
Inquiry Letters
Direct Pattern
4. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Indirect pattern
Internal document
Motivated Method
Pictograms
5. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
RFI
Unsolicited
Expanded definition
Semitechnical presentations
6. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Direct Pattern
Table of Contents
Parenthetical definition
Serif
7. 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.
Formal reports
Gray spaces
Sequential
Sentence
8. Explaining how the item works
Orphan
Operation
External document
Soft evidence
9. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Temporal Method
Formal reports
Serif
Cause and effect
10. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Questions for progress report
Job Application
Sales
Schematic diagrams
11. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Business letter structure
Grant
Pictograms
Purpose and audience
12. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Orphan
Executive
Descriptive Abstract
Appendix
13. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Working definition
Ethical Tech
Unsolicited
Claim Letters
14. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Sequential
Process analysis
Reliability of source
Technical brief
15. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Independent clause
Etymology
Temporal Method
Line graphs
16. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Sales
X-height
Purpose and audience
Cause and effect
17. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Appendix
Sales
Process description
Secondary audience
18. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Questions for progress report
Questions for feasibility report
Grant
Bowl
19. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Motivated Method
Letters of complaint
Subordinate clause
Hard evidence
20. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Ascender
Parenthetical
Informational reports
Executive
21. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Job Application
Negation
Questions for feasibility report
Informational reports
22. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Questions for progress report
Process narrative
Topical Method
Ascender
23. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Secondary source
Descriptive Abstract
Feasibility reports
Operation
24. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Procedures
Descriptive
Problem Solution (Method)
Questions for feasibility report
25. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Training manuals
Sentence
Service manuals
Descriptive
26. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Instructions
Subordinate clause
Jargon
Appendix
27. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Questions for feasibility report
Informative Abstract
Expanded definition
Negation
28. Requests for information.
Bar graphs
Feasibility reports
RFI
Nontech
29. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Negation
Spatial sequence
Informative Abstract
Process description
30. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Audience analysis
Letters of inquiry
Spatial Method
Spatial sequence
31. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Descriptive
Secondary audience
Formal reports
Sequential
32. Hold graphics.
Descender
Purpose and audience
Grant
Black spaces
33. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Process description
Instructions
Letters of inquiry
Questions for progress report
34. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Job Application
Definition by components
Sales
Laboratory reports
35. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inquiry Letters
Motivated Method
Technical brief
Tutorial
36. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Internal document
Primary audience
Technical writing
Sentence
37. Areas that are occupied by text.
Gray spaces
Questions for feasibility report
Ethical Tech
Subordinate clause
38. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Informational reports
Soft evidence
Executive
39. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Sales
Definition by components
Progress reports
Process description
40. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Descender
Soft evidence
Informal reports
Expanded
41. Should be determined before writing
Long proposals
Inquiry Letters
Glossary
Purpose and audience
42. An expert to another expert
Subordinate clause
Definition by components
Progress reports
High tech doc
43. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Sentence definition
Indirect pattern
Primary source
Business letter structure
44. Steps to complete a task
Feasibility report structure
Compound sentence
Indirect pattern
Instructions
45. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Spatial sequence
Training manuals
Feasibility
Semi tech
46. Show steps in process
Soft evidence
Primary audience
Audience analysis
Flowchart
47. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Definition by components
Formal reports
Sequential
Archaic terms
48. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Semitechnical presentations
Grant
Tutorial
RFI
49. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Technical brief
Reliability of source
Routine Internal
Ascender
50. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Emphatic
Procedures
Formal Internal