Resumes
Audience
Mystery Bag
Application Letters
Page Design
100

This is the kind of resume organization where your most recent work experience comes first.

What is reverse chronology?

100

This term refers to the group of people a document is intended to inform or persuade.

What is audience?

100

This hides or delays who is doing the action in a sentence.

What is passive voice?

100

This is the number of pages an application letter should be.

What is one?

100

This page design principle puts a series of related items together.

What is a list?

200

This statement on a resume tells employers your main goal for applying for the job.

What is the Objective Statetment?

200

When writing a technical document, considering whether the audience consists of experts, technicians, managers, or laypersons helps determine this key aspect of communication.

What is level of detail?

200

This version of the Microsoft Office suite is free to all HTC students.

What is Microsoft 365?

200

This type of application letter is for a job that was advertised.

What is a solicited letter?

200

In technical writing, this type of space between lines and paragraphs improves readability and prevents text from feeling cluttered.

What is white space?

300

These are good starting points for creating a resume but could be overdone if you're not careful.

What is a resume template?

300

In workplace communication, adjusting tone, vocabulary, and format based on the audience ensures this key principle of effective writing.

What is clarity?

300

This writing principle ensures that items in a list or series follow the same grammatical structure, improving clarity and readability.

What is Parallelism?

300

This is a type of letter you send after you've completed an interview with a potential employer.

What is a Thank You letter?

300

This typeface is best for documents that are to be read on a screen.

What is san-serif?

400

It's traditional for an employer to ask for contact information for these three people who can talk about your abilities and character.

Who are References?

400

Doing this before technical writing helps writers tailor their documents appropriately.

What is audience analysis?

400

This is what Koffi Medeko likes.

What is basketball?

400

70% of employers look at this to learn about a candidate's personality, values, and communication skills.  

What is social media?

400

Boldface, italics, underlining, and all-caps help writers achieve this in technical writing.

What is emphasis?
500
These are the three reasons you should provide in your Objective Statement on a resume.
What is important ability, best soft skill, and connection to employer culture?
500

A user manual for a smartphone typically targets this type of audience, who may not have prior technical knowledge.

What is Non-technical?

500

This is what Sam Schuster said she likes.

What is motorcycles?

500

You should do this and have other people do this to your application letter before submitting it.

What is proofread?

500

This announces how a document is organized and what readers can expect to read in a section.

What is a heading?