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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Secondary source
Instructions
Flowchart
Glossary
2. A single line carried over the top of a column
Internal document
Widow
Descriptive Abstract
Procedures
3. Describing how a mechanism works
Functional sequence
Schematic diagrams
Inquiry Letters
Questions for progress report
4. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Expanded
Orphan
Subordinate clause
Questions for progress report
5. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Purpose and audience
Causal Method
Claim Letters
Operation
6. Written step by step instructions
Operator's manuals
Sequential
Table of Contents
Formal Internal
7. Areas that are occupied by text.
Formal reports
Gray spaces
Tutorial
Titles
8. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Gray spaces
Semitechnical presentations
Progress reports
Parenthetical definition
9. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Sentence
Visuals
Flowchart
Gray spaces
10. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Expanded
Primary source
Glossary
Topical Method
11. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Formal reports
Gantt charts
Procedures
Operator's manuals
12. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Topical Method
Audience analysis
Jargon
Independent clause
13. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Primary source
Sentence definition
Sales
Primary audience
14. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Long proposals
Etymology
Orphan
Closing
15. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Descriptive Abstract
Archaic terms
Justification
Expanded definition
16. 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.
Visuals
Sentence
Exploded diagrams
Internal document
17. The origin of the word
Semi tech
Etymology
Procedures
Sentence
18. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Justification
Ascender
Resume
User manuals
19. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Service manuals
Descriptive Abstract
Process narrative
Formal reports
20. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Orphan
Unsolicited
RFI
Glossary
21. Explanation of what the term does NOT mean
Purpose and audience
Semitechnical presentations
Negation
Indirect pattern
22. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Questions for progress report
Bar graphs
Compound-complex sentence
Functional sequence
23. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Grant
Memo
Resume
Compound sentence
24. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Process narrative
Working definition
Causal Method
Procedures
25. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Technical brief
Tutorial
Soft evidence
Inquiry Letters
26. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Letters of inquiry
Procedures
Chronological sequence
Gantt charts
27. A subject-oriented description
Tutorial
Negation
Process analysis
Motivated Method
28. Steps to complete a task
Formal reports
User manuals
Compound sentence
Instructions
29. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Procedures
Temporal Method
Schematic diagrams
Memo
30. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Feasibility
Executive
Indirect pattern
Informal reports
31. Hold graphics.
Semi tech
Black spaces
Cap height
Progress reports
32. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Process description
Grant
High tech doc
Secondary source
33. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Justification
Memo
Bar graphs
Exploded diagrams
34. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Ethical Tech
Pictograms
Solicited
Chronological sequence
35. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Informative
Sales
Nontech
X-height
36. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Soft evidence
High tech doc
Direct Pattern
Schematic diagrams
37. The height of the segment of lowercase lettes such as h -d -f - and b that rises above the x-height.
Pictograms
Solicited
Chronological sequence
Ascender
38. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Internal document
Descriptive
Black spaces
Descender
39. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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40. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Appendix
Process description
Conclusion
Analytical reports
41. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Operation
Ascender
Emphatic
Internal document
42. Word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph
Compound sentence
Functional sequence
Emphatic
Orphan
43. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Abstract
Routine Internal
Nontech
Laboratory reports
44. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Bar graphs
Conclusion
Job Application
Informative Abstract
45. Explaining how the item works
Purpose and audience
Flowchart
Inquiry Letters
Operation
46. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Soft evidence
Widow
Nontech
Formal reports
47. Describes how something works - breaks down process into steps
Letters of inquiry
Analytical reports
Process description
Internal document
48. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Parenthetical definition
Solicited
Resume
Jargon
49. Simplified description of a term.
Analytical reports
Black spaces
Gray spaces
Working definition
50. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Soft evidence
Abstract
Laboratory reports
Inquiry Letters