Genre
Your Harvest Festival presentations for Dr. Giles and Ms. Burchell were examples of this genre of technical document.
What is a proposal?
This term refers to language that is understood by a specific group (e.g., an occupation).
What is jargon?
This type of voice occurs when a subject is acted upon by a verb (i.e., the subject is in the object position).
What is passive voice?
This college football team is the 2021 SEC East champion.
Who are the Georgia Bulldogs?
You used a structure made of Legos as the basis for this genre of document.
What are instructions (or a manual)?
In technical writing, this term refers to the intended audience for a piece of writing.
What is a user(s)?
This type of clause has a subject and a verb and can thus stand on its own as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
Last month this actor discharged a firearm on a New Mexico movie set, killing the film's cinematographer.
Who is Alec Baldwin?
According to Graves and Graves, these are the three rhetorical elements that determine genre.
What are style, structure, and register?
This term, with its accompanying government website, refers to the use of clear and direct language in technical writing.
What is plain language?
This part of speech is the first you should eliminate when shortening a sentence.
What is an adverb?
Last month, this alleged murderer of Gabby Petito was found dead in a Florida nature preserve.
Who is Brian Laundrie?
According to Graves and Graves, these are the four types of technical reports.
What are status reports, white papers, lab reports, and recommendation reports?
These are the three elements of a categorical definition.
What are term, class, and features?
This tense refers to an action that occurred *before* a specified time in the past.
What is the past perfect?
Last month "That's What I Want" by this Georgia-born artist, whose real name is Montero Hill, debuted at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Who is Lil Nax X?
These are the four types of communication in Beale's model.
What are rhetorical, performative, poetic, and scientific?
This type of chart is used to indicate timelines.
What is a Gantt chart?
This term refers to a phrase that is not necessary to a sentence, and is usually set off with commas.
What is a parenthetical phrase?
This month marked the death of F.W. DeKlerk, whose presidency helped to end the policy of apartheid in this country.
What is South Africa?