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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Useful in reports discussing problems and solutions
Serif
Cause and effect
Glossary
Widow
2. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Indirect pattern
Independent clause
Technical brief
Operation
3. Shows meaning of a process or concept
Job Application
Visuals
Informative
Informational reports
4. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Table of Contents
Sequential
Definition by components
Exploded diagrams
5. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Service manuals
Semitechnical presentations
Unsolicited
Nontech
6. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Negation
Letters of inquiry
Line graphs
Expanded definition
7. Words & phrases that are not generally used in modern communications but were common in previous decades.
Expanded definition
Letters of complaint
Archaic terms
Causal Method
8. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Laboratory reports
Inquiry Letters
Reliability of source
Gray spaces
9. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Spatial sequence
Nontech
Primary audience
Progress reports
10. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Bar graphs
Closing
Exploded diagrams
Questions for progress report
11. The origin of the word
Soft evidence
Etymology
Ethical Tech
Job Application
12. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Descriptive
Conclusion
Etymology
Resume
13. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Etymology
Internal document
Spatial sequence
Informal reports
14. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Conclusion
Glossary
Semitechnical presentations
Ethical Tech
15. 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
Spatial Method
Closing
Jargon
16. Hold graphics.
Semi tech
Primary audience
Informal reports
Black spaces
17. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Justification
Training manuals
Claim Letters
Spatial Method
18. This illustrates a cause and effect method. Is a 2 pointer like problem solution.
Purpose and audience
Formal reports
Causal Method
Functional sequence
19. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Secondary audience
X-height
Etymology
Compound-complex sentence
20. Should be determined before writing
Purpose and audience
Justification
User manuals
Table of Contents
21. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
External document
Internal document
Informal reports
Letters of inquiry
22. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Training manuals
Serif
Cause and effect
Procedures
23. Requests for information.
Formal Internal
Questions for progress report
RFI
Orphan
24. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Resume
Compound sentence
Informative Abstract
Compound-complex sentence
25. Proposals used when requesting large funds
User manuals
Formal Internal
Claim Letters
Grant
26. Show trends and changes over time
Line graphs
Visuals
Progress reports
Operator's manuals
27. The abstract before the full report that summarizes version of report
Parenthetical definition
Table of Contents
Conclusion
Informative
28. Describes the purpose - scope - and method used to arrive to conclusion. Included on the title page - really short.
Conclusion
Subordinate clause
Descriptive Abstract
Feasibility reports
29. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
External document
Formal Internal
Inquiry Letters
Questions for feasibility report
30. Areas that are occupied by text.
Gray spaces
Archaic terms
Descriptive
X-height
31. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Instructions
Cap height
Analytical reports
Conclusion
32. Simplified description of a term.
Motivated Method
Formal reports
Working definition
Primary source
33. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Parenthetical
Widow
Semitechnical presentations
Closing
34. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Training manuals
Spatial Method
Table of Contents
Job Application
35. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Internal document
Topical Method
Formal reports
Secondary source
36. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Primary audience
Gray spaces
Schematic diagrams
Visuals
37. An expert to another expert
Long proposals
Table of Contents
High tech doc
Bowl
38. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Operation
Compound sentence
Descender
Process description
39. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Appendix
Business letter structure
External document
Secondary audience
40. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Ethical Tech
Audience analysis
Parenthetical definition
Feasibility reports
41. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Parenthetical definition
Flowchart
Exploded diagrams
Appendix
42. External proposal requesting funding for a study
Grant
Routine Internal
Informational reports
Technical brief
43. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Formal reports
Black spaces
Justification
Parenthetical
44. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Direct Pattern
Exploded diagrams
Progress reports
Feasibility
45. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Expanded
Indirect pattern
Serif
Emphatic
46. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Soft evidence
Pictograms
Gantt charts
Inquiry Letters
47. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Glossary
Letters of complaint
Abstract
Archaic terms
48. 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
Solicited
Long proposals
Pictograms
Sales
49. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Internal document
Sentence definition
User manuals
Informative Abstract
50. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Pictograms
Descriptive Abstract
Questions for progress report
Technical writing