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WorksheetsAdvTechWriting Scope and Nature of TW
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Teacher Nora gives student A and student B a writing task. She gives them the topic: CATS. If student A writes about animal kingdom classification of ‘cats’ and its habitat, what form of writing does student A employ?
TECHNICAL WRITING
LITERARY WRITING
CAMPUS JOURNALISM
NEWS WRITING
If student B writes about the kind of companionship that a person gets by having a cat, what form of writing does student B employ?
TECHNICAL WRITING
LITERARY WRITING
CAMPUS JOURNALISM
NEWS WRITING
Which of the following sentences does not exhibit the characteristics of technical writing?
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets.
All clouds are made up of basically the same thing; water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky.
Water or various other chemicals compose of droplets and crystals formulate a cloud.
Clouds bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers from the seas and streams.
Which of the following sentences does not exemplify technical writing?
The family is a major social institution.
There is a certain kind of closeness that only families know; it begins with childhood and increases as it grows.
A family is a social unit created by blood, marriage or adoption.
A family can be described as nuclear, with parents and children, or extended, encompassing other relatives in the household.
Which of the following sentences does not exemplify technical writing?
The universe is hungry. What you feed it; you will get it back.
The universe is all of space and time, including planets, stars, galaxies and all forms of matter and energy.
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe.
The observable universe is huge, but it has limits.
Which of the following phrases describes ‘accuracy’ as a quality of a good technical report?
devoid of errors
serious
the reader’s understanding is of utmost importance
sharp
Which of the following phrases describes ‘factuality’ as a quality of a good technical report?
highlights the main idea
appropriately transitioned, meaningful whole
proven and tested ideas
easily understood
Which of the following phrases describes ‘emphasis’ as a quality of a good technical report?
highlights mains ideas
sharp
conforms rational thinking and reasoning
conforms with the mechanical rules of writing
Which of the following phrases describes ‘mechanical correctness’ as a quality of a good technical report?
exhibits knowledge of punctuation marks, capitalization, and use of numbers in writing
takes into account all aspects of a subject matter
conforms with rational thinking and reasoning
has purpose and satisfies its readers
Which of the following phrases describes ‘quality’ as a characteristic of a good technical report?
has purpose and satisfies its readers
conforms with logical thinking and reasoning
is devoid of errors
conforms with mechanical rules of writing
Which of the following qualities of a good technical report is described as a short but complete and clear?
Coherent
Brief
Direct
Factual
Which of the following qualities of a good technical report is described as unbiased and unprejudiced?
Neutrality
Logicality
Personality
Specificity
Which of the following qualities describes a good technical report as a complete work, containing all the important data that the reader needs?
Thoroughness
Reader-friendliness
Brevity
Personality
Which of the following qualities exemplifies the writer’s eager desire or diligence in writing in his or her technical report?
Zeal
Yuppiness
X-factor
Personality
Which of the following phrases describes the ‘ethical’ key quality of a technical writer?
conforms with the code of professionalism
writes well without prodding
writes objectively
uses wit
Which of the components of the WRITING paradigm presented by Dell Hymes encourages any writer to consider the expectations of the readers of a specific subject matter?
Genre
Needs
Intention
Register
Which of the following components of the WRITING paradigm presented by Dell Hymes encourages any writer to determine the his/ her purpose of writing?
Genre
Register
Intention
Tenor
Which of the following phrases describes the ‘careful’ key quality of a technical writer?
takes pain in doing work
display tireless energy in his writing
applies principles of logic
produces desired results
Which of the following components of the WRITING paradigm presented by Dell Hymes encourages any writer to carefully select the kinds of words/ jargons/ technical terms to be used in writing?
Genre
Register
Intention
Tenor
Which of the following components of the WRITING paradigm presented by Dell Hymes encourages any writer to conduct thorough research and reading about the subject/ topic for writing?
Information
Intention
Width
Genre
