Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Define the term description.

• A non verbal and/or visual picture of something

• A verbal and/or visual picture of something

• telling someone something

• How something looks.

Define the term glossary.

• A book

• A list of terms and abbreviations with definitions

• lip balm

• A list of numbers

A detailed listing of the topics and subtopics covered in a book, manual, or other written work that includes the page numbers where the topics can be found

• index

• description

• glossary

• object

Steps that tell readers how to do something

• technical writing

• process

• instructions

• white space

Sets of instructions combined with explanations, descriptions, definitions, and other related information

• process

• white space

• object

• manuals

A type of object that consists of parts working together to perform one or more tasks

• object

• mechanism

• index

• glossary

Something inanimate that is natural or synthetic and can be seen or touched

• object

• process

• mechanism

• technical writing

A series of events that take place over time and result in a change or a product

• object

• instructions

• process

• glossary