Definitions
Descriptions
Instructions
Analytical Reports & Technical Writing
Miscellaneous
100
Explains terms or concepts
What are definitions?
100
Part of an owner's manual, offers overall device and its parts
What is product description?
100
Manuals, brief reference cards, instructional brochures, hyperlinked instructions, and online instructions.
What are types of instructional documents?
100
A responsibility for presenting data without misrepresentation
What is ethical consideration?
100
Ate the most peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during instruction night.
Who is Hyym?
200
A word's origin
What is etymology?
200
Shows a device in action
What is process description?
200
Spell out the steps required to completing a task or series of tasks
What are instructions?
200
Tool for conducting a survey
What is a questionnaire?
200
Purple
What is my instructor's favorite color?
300
Used when numerous terms need to be defined
What is a glossary?
300
Product descriptions and process descriptions
What are the two types of technical descriptions?
300
Clear and limiting title, informed consent, visuals, appropriate level of detail and technicality, logically ordered steps, notes and hazard notices, readability, and effective design
What are elements of effective instructions?
300
Focus and organize information
What are visuals?
300
Presented that "whom" will become obsolete in the future of the English language
Who is Michael?
400
Parenthetical, sentence, and expanded
What are the types of definitions?
400
Prescribe standards for performance, safety, and quality
What are specifications?
400
A special type of instructions that serve as official guidelines.
What are procedures?
400
Useful for showing exactly how something looks
What is a photograph?
400
All forms of to be (am, are, is, was, were, etc.)
What are weak verbs?
500
Explaining what a term does not mean
What is negation?
500
Answers the questions: How is it assembled? How does it work? How does it happen?
What is chronological sequence?
500
Identifies an immediate hazard to life or limb
What is a danger notice?
500
Work with ideas and information; Plan the document; draft the document; evaluate and revise the document
What are the four stages of technical writing?
500
Helps people interact with technology and solve complex problems.
What is technical communication?
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