JOURNALISM 8 - 1ST QUARTER

can express ideas or convey information in ways that words cannot by making obstruct concepts and relationships concrete

• Written essays
• Audio recordings
• Visual representations or diagrams
• Physical models

5 TYPES OF CHOOSING VISUALS IN TECHNICAL WRITING

• Audio Clips
• Diagrams, Charts, Tables, Photographs Maps

• Photographs
• Text Blocks

it depics real objects difficult to photograph, depicts imaginary objects, what is the visual represented in technical writing

• Drawings

• Charts and graphs without context.
• Text descriptions without visuals.
• Photographs of real objects only.

this visual in technical writing show actual images

• table
• Photography

• diagram
• chart

it show specific geographic feature of area

• Maps

• Population density
• Topographic map
• Weather patterns

it organize information systematically in rows

• grid
• list
• table
• array

It show comparisons no matter vertically or horizontally

• Graph
• Chart
• List
• Matrix or Table

OCCURS WHEN A GRAMMATICALLY SUBORDINATE ELEMENT CONTAINS THE MAIN IDEA OF THE SENTENCE OR WHEN A SUBORDINATE ELEMENT IS SO LONG THAT IT OBSCURES THE MAIN IDEA.

• Clarity in sentence structure.
• Use of complex sentences for emphasis.
• faulty subordination

• Direct statements without subordination.

occur when writers inappropriately assume a subject that they do not state in the clause.

• Explicit subjects
• Stated subjects
• Implicit / Missing subjects

• Assumed subjects

ontains more information that the reader can comfortably absorb. The obvious remedy for a rambling sentence is to divide it into two or more sentences. When you do that, put the main message of the rambling sentence into the first of the revised sentences.

• Rambling sentences

• Combine the rambling sentence with another sentence.
• Remove unnecessary words from the rambling sentence.
• Add more details to the rambling sentence.