WorksheetsChapter 2 Technical Writing for Success
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
The appeal to ethics, use of the speaker or writer's good character is called:
Ethos
Kairos
Logos
Pathos
The defining characteristics of an audience; information about the group such as the age, sex, income, and education level of its members.
Multiple Audience
Primary Audience
Demographics
Culture
A means by which information is conveyed, such as a newspaper article, a television commercial, or a speech.
Format
Scope
Medium
Artifact
An Audience that includes readers whose points of view differ.
Target Audience
Primary Audience
Multiple Audience
Specific Audience
The appeal to the opportune moment, the best time to deliver a message.
Pathos
Logos
Mythos
Kairos
The readers or listeners to whom you are responsible first; often the readers who requested or authorized the document.
Secondary Audience
Specific Audience
Multiple Audience
Primary Audience
The appeal to logic; use of evidence and well-reasoned argument.
Scope
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
The extent of treatment, activity, or influence; what is included and what is excluded; what you examine in your efforts to solve a particular problem.
Role
Format
Purpose
Scope
The appeal to emotion; identification with or sympathy for an audience or cause.
Gyros
Pathos
Mykonos
Kairos
The reader to whom you are responsible after you have met the needs of the primary audience.
Secondary Audience
Accomodate
Specific Audience
Target Audience
A person who organized personnel and is responsible for the day to day operations as well as long range planning.
Lay Reader
Expert
Manager
Technician
An authority in a particular field who is highly skilled and professional, perhaps with an advanced degree.
Target Audience
Lay Reader
Manager
Expert
A General Reader without expert knowledge but with an interest in a subject.
Reader
Enthusiast
Technician
Lay Reader
A person with skilled training who implements the ideas or the plans of the expert
Technician
Manager
Worker
Employee
The primary audience...
Asked for or authorized the writing of the document.
Will make decisions based on information in the document.
Will request or take action based on information in the document.
Will likely read the entire document
All of the above.
The Secondary Audience...
Is interested in the decisions made or the information in the document.
Will not care about the document at all.
Will not use any information in the document.
May read selected portions of the document.
List the types of Audiences:
Nerds, Dweebs, Goofballs, Geeks,
Target Audience, Specific Audience, Multiple Audience, Secondary Audience
Lay Reader, Technician, Manager, Expert
Bibliophiles, Specific Audience,
Demographics,
Culture
A communication process designed to influence another's point of view, requires a speaker or writer to think through the rhetorical situation.
Rhetorical Sensitivity.
Rhetorical Question
Rhetorical Act
Rhetoric
The real-life event prompting the need for some kind of response.
Rhetorical Situation
Crisis
Rhetorical Act
A Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
The specific beliefs, customs, and values, specific to a particular group of people or to a particular region - affects what an audience considers to be proper behavior.
Role
Culture
Demographics
Primary Audience
