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Technical Writing Vocab
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1. When the anticipated audience is familiar with the topic - but has less experience - specialized training - or expertise with the subject than the writer.
Table of Contents
Hard evidence
Semitechnical presentations
Informative
2. External proposal written not in any response to anything
Glossary
Unsolicited
Technical brief
Technical writing
3. Translate numbers into shapes or colors
Instructions
Bar graphs
Ascender
Chronological sequence
4. Main part of the body is explaining parts of a whole. Each point is a part.
Glossary
Problem Solution (Method)
Working definition
Topical Method
5. Show trends and changes over time
Line graphs
External document
Pictograms
Negation
6. Decorative strokes at the top & bottom of letters.
Informative
Serif
Visuals
Training manuals
7. Learning as much as possible about the individuals who will be using the document
Expanded
Expanded definition
Audience analysis
Descriptive
8. Shows how phases of a chart relate to each other
Table of Contents
Gantt charts
Cause and effect
Causal Method
9. Describing order of assembly and how it was put together
Causal Method
Working definition
Table of Contents
Chronological sequence
10. Intro: background - purpose statement - Body: Options - Conclusion - Interpretation - Recommendation - Opinion
Feasibility report structure
Descriptive
Problem Solution (Method)
Sequential
11. 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.
Formal reports
Bowl
Gantt charts
Motivated Method
12. Summaries before full report - includes main points and proposal - often persuasive
Executive
Audience analysis
Negation
Training manuals
13. A clause where the predicate begins with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
Subordinate clause
Archaic terms
Operation
Semi tech
14. Defines in pages. Used when an item requires extensive explaining. Belong in the introduction
Subordinate clause
Questions for progress report
Procedures
Expanded
15. A subject-oriented description
Cause and effect
Gray spaces
Process analysis
Topical Method
16. External proposal that could be long or short depending on size of potential sale
Conclusion
Visuals
Business letter structure
Sales
17. Used for complex terms - or when it has multiple meanings. Indicate item - classify - and says what makes it unique.
Sentence definition
Soft evidence
Laboratory reports
Instructions
18. Ensure safety - how to evacuate
Motivated Method
Procedures
Definition by components
Exploded diagrams
19. Writers strive for balanced evidence - no exaggeration.
Ethical Tech
Conclusion
Memo
Descriptive Abstract
20. Communication written for and about business & industry - focusing on products and services; presented in a user-friendly format
Technical writing
Formal reports
Informative
Sentence
21. 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.
Resume
Jargon
Sentence
Temporal Method
22. Expert to little - but growing - experience or knowledge in an individual
Semi tech
Expanded definition
Training manuals
Abstract
23. Written step by step instructions
Semi tech
Line graphs
Sequential
Conclusion
24. 1-2 pages - well organized - easy to read - free of mistakes.
Resume
Questions for progress report
Business letter structure
Procedures
25. Use of icons to represent quantities. Nice for nonexperts to understand
Temporal Method
Primary audience
Pictograms
Inside address
26. Puts stuff into chronological order. Each point is a step in a process.
Descriptive Abstract
Negation
Temporal Method
Inside address
27. A business letter that goes along with a resume when applying for internship or employment
Compound-complex sentence
Informative Abstract
Semi tech
Job Application
28. Describes a mechanism at rest - what an object is - what it does - what it looks like
Service manuals
Reliability of source
Spatial sequence
Process narrative
29. Written for skilled and unskilled
Temporal Method
User manuals
Technical brief
Descriptive Abstract
30. Reports that evaluate - estimate - make recommendations
Analytical reports
Business letter structure
Causal Method
Laboratory reports
31. The height of a lowercase x - which reflects the height of the main bodies of the lowercase letters.
Informative
X-height
Semi tech
Jargon
32. Offer firsthand experience with the subject.
Solicited
Chronological sequence
Reliability of source
Primary source
33. Specialized language used in a field of study or profession.
Jargon
Bowl
Internal document
RFI
34. A worksheet used to organize and summarize the likely readers' characteristics & needs.
Ethical Tech
Direct Pattern
Technical brief
Audience analysis
35. Needed if booklet is longer than 10 pages. After the title page and abstract - before the forward.
Letters of inquiry
Table of Contents
Sales
Procedures
36. Proposals used when requesting large funds
Formal Internal
External document
Primary source
Exploded diagrams
37. Breaks up a topic and decribes it in a direction. Kinda like temporal - but its directional. Up to down - left to right.
Spatial sequence
External document
Progress reports
Spatial Method
38. Factual statements - statistics - expert opinions.
Reliability of source
Sales
Hard evidence
Sequential
39. Reports that require length - extensive research - multiple writers
Feasibility reports
Emphatic
Serif
Formal reports
40. Shows how parts of a principle - process or function fit together
Schematic diagrams
High tech doc
Subordinate clause
Pictograms
41. Emphasizes important info. Used for recommendations
Emphatic
Training manuals
User manuals
Widow
42. Definition uses a synonym or a clarifying phrase.
Titles
Emphatic
Parenthetical definition
Ethical Tech
43. Describes the process from the writer's point of view
Closing
Process narrative
Working definition
Titles
44. What is new since the last report - What needs to be done - Unanticipated problems - Expected timetable for completion
Direct Pattern
Questions for progress report
Jargon
Operator's manuals
45. A single line carried over the top of a column
Conclusion
Instructions
Widow
Gray spaces
46. Teaching tools for vocational jobs - often paired with audiovisual info
Training manuals
Ascender
High tech doc
Parenthetical definition
47. The height of lowercase letters such as p -j -y and q that falls below the baseline.
Indirect pattern
Parenthetical
Subordinate clause
Descender
48. An expert to another expert
Hard evidence
Independent clause
High tech doc
Solicited
49. Heading - date - inside address - salutation - text - closing - signature - title. Sometimes include subject lines - like memos.
Abstract
Etymology
Business letter structure
Letters of inquiry
50. Areas that are occupied by text.
Motivated Method
Audience analysis
Gray spaces
Gantt charts