(TW) CH. 3 TEST REVIEW

Close-ended Questions___________

• Writing to explain or inform

•  Questions that restrict the number of possible answers

• Research done in the field

• Reasons you would answer in a negative way

Open-ended Questions____________

• The highly specialized language of a discipline or technical field

• What was actually meant

• The audience you impress after the fact

• These encourage the respondent to provide any answer they like

Archives__________

• Collections or repositories of documents like a library catalog

• The aim for the tone

• Something someone else says or does

• Different things to different readers 

Documentation _____________

• The way a document is organized

• Special things about an audience

• Giving credit to another person for his or her work

• The person you take the work from

Paraphrase___________

• Presenting someone else’s idea in one’s own words, phrases, and sentence structure

• meaning what you say

• Visual efforts

• The function or job someone performs at work

 Citations ___________

• Defining characteristics of an audience

•  Using someone else’s work as your own

•  What you do at work

• written indications of the source of borrowed materials

Reliable Data ___________

• Words meant to make you feel emotions

• Terminology used in the field

• Data that provide results that can be duplicated under similar circumstances

• The extent of treatment, activity, or influence of a writing

Plagiarism  __________

• Technical writing must be clear

• The readers or listeners to whom you are responsible for first

•  Writing to convince others

•  Using another person’s words and/or ideas without properly documenting or giving credit

Direct Quotation___________

• Trying to please everyone

• Defining characteristics of an audience

• borrowed ideas, words, phrases, and sentences exactly as they appear in the original document

• The practice one performs

Population_____________

• Something done to take action

• The target group from which a person wants to gather data

• Characters

• The readers to whom you are responsible after you have met the needs of the primary audience