Resumes
A résumé that lists your education, skills, and experience in reverse order of your achieving them. (i.e. newest first).
What is a chronological resume?
Technical document that provides general guidelines for performing a task.
What are procedures?
The way you express your ideas in a document, including how you write paragraphs, sentences, and the words and phrases you choose.
What is Style?
Any letter or memo longer than one page must include this design element.
What are headers?
A report that describes and evaluates a project as it is being accomplished.
What is a progress report?
About how long, in seconds, do employers sometimes scan a resume to see if it should be given further consideration.
What is 30 seconds?
When designing instructions, illustrations in instructions…
What is simple as possible?
A group of sentences that begins with a statement of the central idea, called the topic sentence, followed by supporting sentences in a logical order.
What is a paragraph?
Supportive content for each key idea in the memo is found here.
What is the middle/second section?
Describes planned work or research, the reasons for the work, the methods proposed to accomplish the work, the estimated time required, and the expected cost.
What is a proposal?
The best length for a cover letter.
What is 1 page?
A common format for lengthy, complex instructions.
What is a manual?
Determining your readers’ knowledge level of the subject you are writing about helps you to primarily select…
What is terminology?
Four basic elements of memo at the top.
What are To, From, Subject, Date?
Two major categories of illustrations in workplace and technical documents.
What are figures and tables?
These make your writing vivid and specific, and they make you seem dynamic and energetic.
What are action verbs? / Active voice
How to organize instructions you would use a numbered bulletin for this.
Use numbers for chronological purposes like steps.
The most important aspect of good technical writing.
What is accuracy?
The visual perceptual concept of contrast meaning.
The perception that things are different because they appear visually different?
A disadvantage of a functional resume.
The disadvantage of a functional résumé format is that it makes it more difficult for readers to decipher the progression of your jobs and education.
Used to judge the effectiveness of instructions before final publishing.
What is a usability/playtest?
Three of the effective technical/professional communication stages (there are 6 in total).
1. Analyzing the situation; 2. Choosing/discovering information; 3. Arranging information; 4. Drafting; 5. Revising; and 6. Editing the finished draft.
Three of the six c's.
What are concise, concrete, complete, correct, courteous, and clear?
An in-depth report or guide about a specific topic and the problems that surround it for a specific audience. While multi-purposed, it often has a persuasive element in that it usually offers solutions.
What is a white paper?