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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. Show trends and changes over time
Operator's manuals
Line graphs
Operation
Descriptive
2. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Chronological sequence
Direct Pattern
Informational reports
Justification
3. A business letter that includes complaint of product - request of refund - or apology
Operation
Claim Letters
Primary source
Functional sequence
4. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Inside address
Process narrative
Subordinate clause
Compound sentence
5. Steps to complete a task
Audience analysis
Instructions
Serif
Hard evidence
6. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Compound-complex sentence
Spatial Method
Justification
Jargon
7. 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
External document
Semitechnical presentations
Process narrative
Long proposals
8. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Long proposals
Parenthetical definition
Reliability of source
RFI
9. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Chronological sequence
Serif
Sentence
Hard evidence
10. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Motivated Method
Schematic diagrams
Progress reports
Expanded definition
11. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Formal Internal
Topical Method
Grant
Operator's manuals
12. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Widow
Inside address
Laboratory reports
Sentence
13. Reports that help the executives determine if goal is practical and reachable. Often being with purpose statement.
Internal document
Feasibility report structure
Feasibility reports
Expanded
14. (Structured reports) - Reports that keep reader informed on a large project
Progress reports
Expanded
Table of Contents
Instructions
15. Explaining how the item works
Purpose and audience
Informational reports
Operation
Letters of complaint
16. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Motivated Method
Pictograms
Service manuals
Topical Method
17. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Formal reports
Archaic terms
Training manuals
Informative
18. The people who need the information & will use it to make decisions.
Definition by components
Temporal Method
Primary audience
Archaic terms
19. Defines by using a synonym - or a clarifying phrase (if less than 4 terms)
Parenthetical
Executive
Feasibility report structure
Analytical reports
20. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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21. Summary of written doc that lets reader know if they want to read the article
External document
Abstract
Definition by components
Executive
22. Summaries either at the beginning or end of the body - reviews main points and findings
Schematic diagrams
Technical writing
Closing
Analytical reports
23. A single line carried over the top of a column
Widow
Jargon
Letters of inquiry
Unsolicited
24. Describing how a mechanism works
Motivated Method
Sentence definition
Functional sequence
Topical Method
25. Reports lacking in research - typically reflects a memorandum
Informal reports
Process description
Subordinate clause
Line graphs
26. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Training manuals
Inquiry Letters
Nontech
Informative
27. Expert to someone with no knowledge of subject
Nontech
Topical Method
Titles
Closing
28. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Sequential
Ethical Tech
Spatial Method
Abstract
29. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Titles
Cause and effect
Expanded definition
Gantt charts
30. Contains 2 or more independent clauses.
Compound sentence
Table of Contents
Parenthetical definition
Training manuals
31. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Topical Method
Appendix
Informative Abstract
Secondary source
32. The origin of the word
Descender
Etymology
Progress reports
Conclusion
33. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
RFI
Routine Internal
Letters of complaint
Inquiry Letters
34. Reports that can be used for policies - instructions - recommending - and requesting info. Written to colleagues.
Technical brief
Nontech
Expanded definition
Memo
35. Show steps in process
Gray spaces
Parenthetical
Questions for feasibility report
Flowchart
36. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Sentence definition
Schematic diagrams
Glossary
Descriptive
37. 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.
Functional sequence
Informative Abstract
Audience analysis
Motivated Method
38. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Technical brief
Abstract
User manuals
Feasibility report structure
39. Any other people who later come in contact with the material.
Secondary audience
Grant
Memo
Process description
40. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Formal reports
Process analysis
Claim Letters
Direct Pattern
41. Written for repair technicians. Contain trouble shooting chart
Working definition
Letters of inquiry
Definition by components
Service manuals
42. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Problem Solution (Method)
Closing
Archaic terms
Procedures
43. Areas that are occupied by text.
Informative Abstract
Gray spaces
Feasibility report structure
Cause and effect
44. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Glossary
Chronological sequence
Process description
Causal Method
45. Written for skilled and unskilled
High tech doc
Semitechnical presentations
Line graphs
User manuals
46. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Direct Pattern
Semi tech
Formal Internal
Cause and effect
47. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Process narrative
Secondary source
Informal reports
Expanded
48. Describes the problem and gives a solution in the body. First point is the problem - second is the solution.
Primary audience
Appendix
Schematic diagrams
Problem Solution (Method)
49. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Ascender
Process description
Gantt charts
Abstract
50. Exam of the likelihood of success if the proposed solution is adopted
Claim Letters
Feasibility
Topical Method
Compound-complex sentence
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