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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Descriptive
Process narrative
Operator's manuals
Ascender
2. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Ascender
Formal reports
Long proposals
Solicited
3. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Exploded diagrams
Informative
Cause and effect
Glossary
4. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Letters of complaint
Appendix
Sentence definition
Primary audience
5. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Informative Abstract
Conclusion
Unsolicited
Justification
6. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Unsolicited
Expanded
Purpose and audience
Compound-complex sentence
7. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Chronological sequence
Titles
Primary audience
Nontech
8. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Motivated Method
Laboratory reports
Closing
Descender
9. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Parenthetical
Questions for feasibility report
Black spaces
Informal reports
10. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Training manuals
Serif
Conclusion
Resume
11. Written for skilled and unskilled
User manuals
Serif
Abstract
Formal reports
12. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Schematic diagrams
X-height
Spatial sequence
Secondary audience
13. A subject-oriented description
Archaic terms
Ethical Tech
External document
Process analysis
14. 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...
Schematic diagrams
Audience analysis
Primary audience
Appendix
15. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Topical Method
Schematic diagrams
Closing
Executive
16. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Primary source
Executive
Causal Method
Primary audience
17. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Tutorial
Laboratory reports
Semi tech
Analytical reports
18. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Table of Contents
Soft evidence
Orphan
Direct Pattern
19. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Widow
Soft evidence
Audience analysis
Job Application
20. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Sentence definition
Indirect pattern
Causal Method
Job Application
21. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Routine Internal
Parenthetical
Pictograms
Gantt charts
22. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Working definition
Routine Internal
Orphan
Procedures
23. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Feasibility
Exploded diagrams
Appendix
Problem Solution (Method)
24. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inside address
Functional sequence
Internal document
Inquiry Letters
25. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Definition by components
Technical brief
External document
Technical writing
26. Show steps in process
Etymology
Executive
Flowchart
RFI
27. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Jargon
Feasibility reports
Primary source
Topical Method
28. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Memo
Archaic terms
Exploded diagrams
Feasibility
29. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Process analysis
Subordinate clause
Sales
Exploded diagrams
30. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Expanded definition
Closing
Sentence definition
Executive
31. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Line graphs
Operation
Audience analysis
Primary source
32. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Black spaces
Questions for feasibility report
Direct Pattern
Independent clause
33. Should be determined before writing
Formal reports
Job Application
Purpose and audience
Problem Solution (Method)
34. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Temporal Method
Memo
Indirect pattern
Sales
35. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Memo
Subordinate clause
Letters of complaint
Parenthetical
36. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Parenthetical definition
Questions for progress report
Purpose and audience
User manuals
37. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Parenthetical
Hard evidence
Chronological sequence
Pictograms
38. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Questions for progress report
Descriptive Abstract
Causal Method
Inquiry Letters
39. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Feasibility
Progress reports
Formal Internal
Informative Abstract
40. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Soft evidence
High tech doc
Flowchart
Grant
41. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Questions for progress report
Training manuals
Reliability of source
Analytical reports
42. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Compound-complex sentence
Indirect pattern
Table of Contents
Functional sequence
43. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Informal reports
Topical Method
Descriptive
Hard evidence
44. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Table of Contents
Visuals
RFI
Business letter structure
45. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Technical writing
Cap height
Spatial Method
Glossary
46. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Secondary source
Pictograms
Long proposals
Compound-complex sentence
47. Areas that are occupied by text.
Process narrative
Descriptive Abstract
Functional sequence
Gray spaces
48. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Cap height
Definition by components
Descriptive Abstract
Titles
49. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
50. 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
Service manuals
Claim Letters
Analytical reports