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Technical Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A business letter that asks about product - service - procedure
Operator's manuals
Pictograms
Inquiry Letters
Routine Internal
2. Sent when the writer is dissatisfied with a product or service.
Jargon
Business letter structure
Spatial sequence
Letters of complaint
3. A clause that can stand alone as a sentence if punctuation is added.
Formal Internal
Sequential
Independent clause
Motivated Method
4. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Parenthetical
Exploded diagrams
Job Application
Cap height
5. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Conclusion
Temporal Method
Ascender
Spatial Method
6. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Job Application
Schematic diagrams
Gantt charts
Primary source
7. Hold graphics.
Black spaces
Cause and effect
Abstract
Tutorial
8. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Visuals
High tech doc
Business letter structure
Hard evidence
9. Often help the reader determine if s/he wants to read it. A good one includes topic - tone - scope - purpose.
Informative
Titles
Motivated Method
Feasibility
10. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Inside address
Semitechnical presentations
Ethical Tech
Glossary
11. Include material that other people have drawn from primary sources.
Secondary source
Internal document
Serif
Ascender
12. Show steps in process
Flowchart
Black spaces
Letters of complaint
Parenthetical definition
13. Gives details before the main point of the memo
Parenthetical definition
Justification
Appendix
Indirect pattern
14. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Feasibility report structure
Semi tech
Pictograms
Topical Method
15. Defines the item by breaking it down into smaller parts.
Conclusion
Process analysis
Indirect pattern
Definition by components
16. Plan likely to succeed - Benefits and risks - Other options - Funding available - How would it affect employees
Functional sequence
Questions for feasibility report
Descender
Feasibility reports
17. The empty space inside letter such as Q - O - and D.
Parenthetical
Nontech
Bowl
Line graphs
18. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Semi tech
Executive
Business letter structure
Sales
19. A single line carried over the top of a column
Operator's manuals
Sales
Widow
Problem Solution (Method)
20. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
X-height
Parenthetical
Executive
Topical Method
21. Present the main point of the memo then the details
Unsolicited
Bowl
Direct Pattern
Etymology
22. Written for trained operators of computers or manufacturing equipment on the job
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23. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Spatial Method
Indirect pattern
Chronological sequence
Serif
24. One that is intended to be used only within the company or organization that prepared it.
Feasibility report structure
Schematic diagrams
Internal document
Subordinate clause
25. External proposal written not in any response to anything
External document
Unsolicited
Closing
Analytical reports
26. Describing how a mechanism works
External document
Functional sequence
Inside address
Formal Internal
27. The abstract on the title page that briefly summarizes the scope and purpose of the document
Ethical Tech
Flowchart
Descriptive
Sentence definition
28. Explaining how the item works
Operation
Cap height
Feasibility
Soft evidence
29. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Parenthetical definition
Letters of complaint
Parenthetical
Memo
30. Requests for information about a service - product - person - policy - procedure - or organization.
Parenthetical definition
Conclusion
Serif
Letters of inquiry
31. Proposals in short format. Frequent for minor requests
Titles
Technical brief
Routine Internal
Long proposals
32. The origin of the word
Parenthetical
Etymology
Jargon
Semitechnical presentations
33. Domain name - purpose of the message? - how recent? - author's credentials? Avoid using only one source.
Operator's manuals
Claim Letters
Reliability of source
Working definition
34. Margins justified on the left are easier to read.
Glossary
Business letter structure
Primary source
Justification
35. Show the details of how parts of an object fit together.
Exploded diagrams
Orphan
Operation
Secondary audience
36. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
User manuals
Training manuals
Technical brief
Long proposals
37. Ununiformed opinions and unverified data
Titles
Formal reports
Compound sentence
Soft evidence
38. 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.
Working definition
Glossary
Descender
Flowchart
39. Written for readers that do not work for the company that prepared the document.
Process analysis
External document
Serif
Independent clause
40. Uses extensive detail for the item. Can be several pages long.
Purpose and audience
Expanded definition
Feasibility reports
Internal document
41. Formed by at lease one suborbindate clause & 2 or more independent clauses.
Conclusion
Causal Method
Letters of complaint
Compound-complex sentence
42. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Audience analysis
Feasibility reports
Orphan
Motivated Method
43. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Unsolicited
Exploded diagrams
Gantt charts
Conclusion
44. Basic elements: Reason for study - Equipment and procedures -Problems - results - conclusions
Spatial Method
Informational reports
Laboratory reports
Informative Abstract
45. External proposal in response to a request for proposal (REF) or an invitation for bids (IFB)
Functional sequence
Ascender
Exploded diagrams
Solicited
46. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Closing
Line graphs
Questions for progress report
Subordinate clause
47. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Operation
Formal reports
Working definition
Functional sequence
48. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Etymology
Formal reports
Parenthetical
Table of Contents
49. A subject-oriented description
Feasibility reports
Temporal Method
Appendix
Process analysis
50. The expanded version of the descriptive abstract. Covers conclusions and recommendations. Placed before full report.
Technical writing
Resume
Sequential
Informative Abstract