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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Secondary audience
Descriptive
Schematic diagrams
Bar graphs
2. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Causal Method
Visuals
Claim Letters
3. 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
Ascender
Jargon
Semitechnical presentations
4. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Formal reports
Emphatic
Routine Internal
Line graphs
5. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Bar graphs
Procedures
Compound-complex sentence
Informative Abstract
6. Steps to complete a task
Routine Internal
Training manuals
Grant
Instructions
7. Hold graphics.
Purpose and audience
Descriptive
Temporal Method
Black spaces
8. A subject-oriented description
Sentence
Process analysis
Process description
Abstract
9. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Appendix
Emphatic
Visuals
Inside address
10. Requests for information.
Compound-complex sentence
RFI
Purpose and audience
Informative
11. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Claim Letters
Progress reports
Descriptive
Problem Solution (Method)
12. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Direct Pattern
Serif
Reliability of source
Secondary source
13. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
Business letter structure
Technical brief
External document
Descriptive Abstract
14. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Causal Method
Emphatic
Compound-complex sentence
Motivated Method
15. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Sentence definition
Letters of inquiry
Semi tech
Sequential
16. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Ethical Tech
Executive
Functional sequence
17. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Nontech
Procedures
Informal reports
Justification
18. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Process analysis
Semitechnical presentations
Internal document
Independent clause
19. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Expanded definition
Informative
Direct Pattern
Schematic diagrams
20. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Training manuals
Claim Letters
Inquiry Letters
Exploded diagrams
21. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
User manuals
Letters of inquiry
Bar graphs
Informative
22. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Routine Internal
Analytical reports
Gantt charts
Internal document
23. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Sentence
Long proposals
Definition by components
Progress reports
24. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Schematic diagrams
Independent clause
Sentence
Service manuals
25. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Parenthetical
Etymology
Formal Internal
Independent clause
26. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Expanded definition
Parenthetical
Letters of complaint
Operator's manuals
27. Show steps in process
Black spaces
Flowchart
Emphatic
Independent clause
28. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Sentence definition
Temporal Method
Technical writing
Questions for progress report
29. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Technical brief
Primary source
Parenthetical definition
Memo
30. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Ascender
External document
Executive
Functional sequence
31. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Titles
Secondary source
Questions for feasibility report
Formal reports
32. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Formal Internal
Definition by components
Audience analysis
Claim Letters
33. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Independent clause
Chronological sequence
Technical brief
Sentence definition
34. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Informative Abstract
Sentence
Descender
Business letter structure
35. 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.
Motivated Method
Expanded
Line graphs
Widow
36. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Independent clause
Audience analysis
Negation
Conclusion
37. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Inside address
Emphatic
Executive
Laboratory reports
38. An expert to another expert
Informative Abstract
Compound sentence
High tech doc
User manuals
39. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Spatial sequence
Causal Method
Feasibility reports
Chronological sequence
40. Should be determined before writing
Executive
Operator's manuals
Purpose and audience
Appendix
41. Show trends and changes over time
Line graphs
Compound sentence
Audience analysis
Executive
42. Written step by step instructions
Secondary audience
Sequential
Parenthetical definition
Inside address
43. 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.
Glossary
Expanded
Hard evidence
Topical Method
44. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Hard evidence
Independent clause
Temporal Method
Causal Method
45. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Inside address
Process narrative
Primary source
Line graphs
46. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Long proposals
Parenthetical definition
Instructions
Letters of inquiry
47. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Solicited
Informative
Subordinate clause
Technical writing
48. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Indirect pattern
Motivated Method
Sentence
Analytical reports
49. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Closing
Process description
High tech doc
Archaic terms
50. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Archaic terms
Orphan
Business letter structure
Service manuals