Technical Writing Chapter 1 Test

expository and persuasive writing done in academic circles; examples include personal essays, research papers, analyses, and arguments.

• Academic Writing

• Expository Writing

• Fiction Writing

• Technical Writing

more than one interpretation is possible; describes writing that means different things to different people

• Ambiguous

• Expository

• Expressive

• Technical

writing to explain or inform

• Expository writing

• Expressive Writing

• Technical Writing

• Imaginative Writing

writing to express or portray personal observation or feeling

• Expressive writing

• Expository writing

• Academic writing

• Persuasive writing

research done in the field, especially through surveys and interviews

• Field research

• Academic research

• Expressive Research

• Expository research

writing such as novels, short stories, drama, and poetry whose situations grow out of fantasy or imagination; events and people are fictional although the themes may reveal universal truths.

• Imaginative Writing

• Expository Writing

• Expressive Writing

• Academic Writing

judgement about a reading that the author does not make for the reader

• Inferences

• Imaginative

• Technical Writing

• Academic writning

the highly specialized language of a discipline or technical field

• Jargon

• Field research

• Style

• Tone

writing to convince others

• Persuasive Writing

• Technical Writing

• Academic Writing

• Imaginative writing

the way an author uses words and sentences

• Style

• Tone

• jargon

• persuasive