ELECTIVE 8 / JOURNALISM / TECHNICAL WRITING - 1ST MID

In Accuracy, What should a technical paper be free from?

• Errors

• subjectivity, humor, and creativity
• inaccuracies, exaggerations, and contradictions
• uniqueness, originality, and creativity

In Brevity, What should a technical paper should be brief / short and make use of?

• Verbose language
• Long paragraphs
• Concise language / expressions

• Complex jargon

In Coherence, How should the elements of a technical paper be?

• Logically Consistent

• Random and disorganized
• Unstructured and messy
• Chaotic and haphazard

In Confidence, What should a report writer develop on his papers?

• Messy and disorganized content
• Incorrect information and false claims
• Incoherent and jumbled thoughts
• The sense of reliability and trust

Dignity is state of being worthy, What should be the quality of grammatical constructions in a technical paper?

• Vague, convoluted, and full of grammatical errors
• Ambiguous, verbose, and riddled with grammatical mistakes
• Unclear, imprecise, and littered with grammatical inaccuracies
• Complete quality.

In Emphasis, What should a report writer know how to stress?

• Major points, a writer should indicate the most important ones.

• main topics

• everything

• some

In Facility, What should report writing observe in terms of readability and understanding?

• Ambiguity, verbosity, disorganization, and incoherence
• Confusion, complexity, inconsistency, and inaccuracy
• Uncertainty, lengthiness, fragmentation, and imprecision
• pacing, sequence, arrangement and continuity.

In Grammatical Correctness, What is the rule of thumb for any kind of writing?

• Use complex jargon and technical terms.
• the application of grammatical rule is a must.

• Be vague, lengthy, and boring.
• Avoid engaging the reader.

What does honesty in writing chiefly involve?

• Exaggerating facts to make the writing more interesting
• acknowledging the use of other people’s information or work either in footnotes or intext.

• Including personal opinions without verification
• Omitting important details to create suspense

What are illustrations referred to as in technical writing?

• diagrams
• charts
• graphs
• the graphics or visuals which includes charts, diagram, tables, photos and other which is used to educate, clarify and support writer’s view.