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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Direct Pattern
Laboratory reports
Spatial sequence
Compound-complex sentence
2. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Conclusion
Executive
Soft evidence
Formal Internal
3. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Compound-complex sentence
Visuals
User manuals
Nontech
4. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
Operation
Sentence
Abstract
Reliability of source
5. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Training manuals
Compound sentence
Ethical Tech
Letters of complaint
6. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Cause and effect
Job Application
Ascender
Grant
7. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Secondary source
Bowl
Letters of complaint
Spatial sequence
8. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Spatial Method
Letters of complaint
Semi tech
Expanded
9. Requests for information.
Gray spaces
Expanded definition
RFI
Negation
10. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Informative Abstract
Glossary
Business letter structure
Cap height
11. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Conclusion
Process narrative
Expanded
Formal reports
12. An expert to another expert
Inside address
High tech doc
Ascender
Technical brief
13. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Technical brief
RFI
Business letter structure
Claim Letters
14. Simplified description of a term.
Sentence
Visuals
Working definition
Formal Internal
15. Written step by step instructions
Table of Contents
Flowchart
Sequential
Spatial Method
16. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Training manuals
Archaic terms
Topical Method
X-height
17. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Functional sequence
Primary audience
Procedures
Bowl
18. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Working definition
Technical writing
Functional sequence
Solicited
19. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Sales
Emphatic
Negation
Sequential
20. Describing how a mechanism works
Causal Method
Functional sequence
Archaic terms
Ascender
21. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
RFI
Resume
Titles
Descriptive
22. Includes the name - title - company - and address of the intended recipient.
Job Application
Secondary audience
Inside address
Business letter structure
23. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Subordinate clause
Primary source
Informative
Primary audience
24. 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
Sequential
Feasibility report structure
Abstract
Long proposals
25. Written for skilled and unskilled
Table of Contents
User manuals
Instructions
Technical brief
26. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Purpose and audience
Independent clause
Unsolicited
Secondary audience
27. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Descriptive
Informative Abstract
Formal Internal
Formal reports
28. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Etymology
Questions for progress report
Visuals
Unsolicited
29. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
High tech doc
Parenthetical definition
Orphan
Operation
30. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Procedures
Closing
Informal reports
Hard evidence
31. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Descender
Problem Solution (Method)
Secondary audience
Ethical Tech
32. The origin of the word
Cause and effect
Informative Abstract
Informational reports
Etymology
33. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Purpose and audience
Tutorial
Procedures
Inside address
34. Steps to complete a task
Secondary source
Semitechnical presentations
Line graphs
Instructions
35. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Sentence
Feasibility reports
Parenthetical definition
Secondary audience
36. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound-complex sentence
Spatial sequence
Descriptive
Serif
37. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Primary source
Grant
Progress reports
Memo
38. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Analytical reports
Schematic diagrams
Black spaces
Letters of complaint
39. 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.
High tech doc
Glossary
Letters of inquiry
Sequential
40. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Table of Contents
Reliability of source
Chronological sequence
Closing
41. Necessary characteristics: Summery - Interpretation - and Recommendations
Letters of complaint
Conclusion
Direct Pattern
Closing
42. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Widow
Informational reports
Indirect pattern
Titles
43. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Flowchart
Etymology
Bar graphs
Parenthetical
44. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Formal reports
Grant
Business letter structure
Archaic terms
45. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Technical brief
Justification
Secondary source
Grant
46. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Inquiry Letters
Ascender
Independent clause
Inside address
47. The height of the uppercase letters.
Analytical reports
Cap height
Primary audience
External document
48. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Jargon
Descriptive
Feasibility
Spatial Method
49. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Table of Contents
Flowchart
Operation
External document
50. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Hard evidence
Nontech
Process analysis
Service manuals