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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Titles
Spatial Method
Parenthetical definition
Letters of complaint
2. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Resume
Questions for feasibility report
Justification
Topical Method
3. Hold graphics.
Black spaces
Solicited
Inquiry Letters
Justification
4. An expert to another expert
Internal document
Ascender
Reliability of source
High tech doc
5. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Topical Method
Compound-complex sentence
Gantt charts
Purpose and audience
6. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Feasibility
Questions for progress report
Long proposals
Tutorial
7. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Indirect pattern
Primary audience
Spatial sequence
Informational reports
8. Requests for information.
Questions for progress report
RFI
Definition by components
Business letter structure
9. 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
Process description
Procedures
Semi tech
Long proposals
10. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Process narrative
Claim Letters
Inquiry Letters
Primary source
11. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Tutorial
Parenthetical definition
Expanded
Reliability of source
12. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Expanded
Secondary audience
Technical writing
Routine Internal
13. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Informal reports
Functional sequence
Expanded
Schematic diagrams
14. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Secondary audience
Questions for feasibility report
Inside address
Causal Method
15. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Feasibility
Executive
User manuals
Resume
16. A subject-oriented description
Claim Letters
Job Application
Process analysis
Executive
17. Afive pointer speech - 1 - get attetion; 2 - establish problem; 3 - satisfy the need; 4 - visualize the need answered in future; 5 - ask action from audience.
Procedures
Motivated Method
Abstract
Letters of complaint
18. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Technical writing
Parenthetical definition
Routine Internal
External document
19. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Executive
Business letter structure
Reliability of source
Bar graphs
20. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Procedures
Bar graphs
Parenthetical
Direct Pattern
21. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Job Application
Service manuals
Semi tech
Emphatic
22. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Cause and effect
Process description
Process analysis
Expanded
23. Simplified description of a term.
Audience analysis
Orphan
Working definition
Process narrative
24. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
User manuals
Pictograms
Executive
Conclusion
25. Reports that are straightforward info (i.e results of something)
Training manuals
Informational reports
Business letter structure
Questions for feasibility report
26. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Spatial Method
Chronological sequence
Cause and effect
Instructions
27. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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28. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Informal reports
Spatial sequence
Ascender
Descriptive Abstract
29. The height of the uppercase letters.
Bar graphs
Closing
Parenthetical
Cap height
30. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Direct Pattern
Definition by components
Etymology
Memo
31. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Descriptive Abstract
Schematic diagrams
Training manuals
Cause and effect
32. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Bar graphs
Conclusion
Etymology
Direct Pattern
33. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Serif
Job Application
Ascender
Closing
34. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Schematic diagrams
Analytical reports
Gray spaces
Parenthetical definition
35. Areas that are occupied by text.
User manuals
Gray spaces
Operation
Primary audience
36. Written step by step instructions
Conclusion
Soft evidence
Sequential
Informative
37. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Progress reports
Justification
Temporal Method
Flowchart
38. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Parenthetical definition
Expanded definition
Feasibility
Sentence definition
39. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Technical writing
Informational reports
Problem Solution (Method)
Table of Contents
40. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Sentence definition
Feasibility
Soft evidence
Audience analysis
41. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
External document
Ascender
X-height
Letters of complaint
42. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Technical writing
Primary audience
RFI
Reliability of source
43. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
External document
Negation
Line graphs
Business letter structure
44. Self study guide for the users of the product
Glossary
Ethical Tech
Bar graphs
Tutorial
45. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Flowchart
Analytical reports
Secondary source
Titles
46. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Resume
Grant
Primary source
Bowl
47. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Letters of inquiry
Inside address
Informal reports
Technical writing
48. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Expanded
Executive
Archaic terms
49. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Job Application
Feasibility reports
Executive
Justification
50. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Emphatic
Primary audience
Orphan
Descriptive