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Chapter 2 Technical Writing for Success

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The appeal to ethics, use of the speaker or writer's good character is called:

a)

Ethos

b)

Kairos

c)

Logos

d)

Pathos

2.

The defining characteristics of an audience; information about the group such as the age, sex, income, and education level of its members.

a)

Multiple Audience

b)

Primary Audience

c)

Demographics

d)

Culture

3.

A means by which information is conveyed, such as a newspaper article, a television commercial, or a speech.

a)

Format

b)

Scope

c)

Medium

d)

Artifact

4.

An Audience that includes readers whose points of view differ.

a)

Target Audience

b)

Primary Audience

c)

Multiple Audience

d)

Specific Audience

5.

The appeal to the opportune moment, the best time to deliver a message.

a)

Pathos

b)

Logos

c)

Mythos

d)

Kairos

6.

The readers or listeners to whom you are responsible first; often the readers who requested or authorized the document.

a)

Secondary Audience

b)

Specific Audience

c)

Multiple Audience

d)

Primary Audience

7.

The appeal to logic; use of evidence and well-reasoned argument.

a)

Scope

b)

Logos

c)

Ethos

d)

Pathos

8.

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.

a)

Role

b)

Format

c)

Purpose

d)

Scope

9.

The appeal to emotion; identification with or sympathy for an audience or cause.

a)

Gyros

b)

Pathos

c)

Mykonos

d)

Kairos

10.

The reader to whom you are responsible after you have met the needs of the primary audience.

a)

Secondary Audience

b)

Accomodate

c)

Specific Audience

d)

Target Audience

11.

A person who organized personnel and is responsible for the day to day operations as well as long range planning.

a)

Lay Reader

b)

Expert

c)

Manager

d)

Technician

12.

An authority in a particular field who is highly skilled and professional, perhaps with an advanced degree.

a)

Target Audience

b)

Lay Reader

c)

Manager

d)

Expert

13.

A General Reader without expert knowledge but with an interest in a subject.

a)

Reader

b)

Enthusiast

c)

Technician

d)

Lay Reader

14.

A person with skilled training who implements the ideas or the plans of the expert

a)

Technician

b)

Manager

c)

Worker

d)

Employee

15.

The primary audience...

a)

Asked for or authorized the writing of the document.

b)

Will make decisions based on information in the document.

c)

Will request or take action based on information in the document.

d)

Will likely read the entire document

e)

All of the above.

16.

The Secondary Audience...

a)

Is interested in the decisions made or the information in the document.

b)

Will not care about the document at all.

c)

Will not use any information in the document.

d)

May read selected portions of the document.

17.

List the types of Audiences:

a)

Nerds, Dweebs, Goofballs, Geeks,

b)

Target Audience, Specific Audience, Multiple Audience, Secondary Audience

c)

Lay Reader, Technician, Manager, Expert

d)

Bibliophiles, Specific Audience,

Demographics,

Culture

18.

A communication process designed to influence another's point of view, requires a speaker or writer to think through the rhetorical situation.

a)

Rhetorical Sensitivity.

b)

Rhetorical Question

c)

Rhetorical Act

d)

Rhetoric

19.

The real-life event prompting the need for some kind of response.

a)

Rhetorical Situation

b)

Crisis

c)

Rhetorical Act

d)

A Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

20.

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.

a)

Role

b)

Culture

c)

Demographics

d)

Primary Audience