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2 & 4 Flashcards

1
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Provide useful information. Serve as analyses of information and as
bases of recommendations.

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Technical Reports

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2
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He defines report as a document designed to
fulfill a need, to tell a need and to know a need by
communicating a set of ideas from a writer’s mind to a
reader’s mind.

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Paul M. Zall (1980)

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In ________________’s language, a report is a document intended for
the purpose of recording and conveying information.

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A.C. Howell

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4
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In technical report, the ideas will be ideas of things
and about things; i.e. data and interpretation – not
merely raw data but analyzed or interpreted data.

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TRUE

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5
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The subject you are going to write on; must be narrowed as
much as possible.

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Report Topic

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A specific person or group of people for whom
you are going to write the report.

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Report Audience

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What the report will accomplish; what needs of
the audience is going to fulfill.

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Report Purpose

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The type of a report (e.g., technical
background report, feasibility report, instructions)

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Report Type

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Qualities of a Good TECHNICAL REPORT

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  • functional
  • informative
  • factual
  • efficient
  • requires a preconceived design
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Qualities of an Effective TECHNICAL WRITER

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  • intellectually curious
  • mentally alert
  • objective
  • scientific-minded
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A of tech writing

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Accuracy

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B of tech writing

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Brevity

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C of tech writing

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Confidence

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D of tech writing

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Dignity

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E of tech writing

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Emphasis

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E of tech writing

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Emphasis

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17
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F of tech writing

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Facility

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G of tech writing

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Grammatical Correctness

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H of tech writing

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Honesty

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I of tech writing

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Illustration

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J of tech writing

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Judgement

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K of tech writing

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Knowledge

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L of tech writing

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Logic

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M of tech writing

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Mechanical Neatness

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N of tech writing

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Normal Procedure

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O of tech writing

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Objectivity

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P of tech writing

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Planning

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Q of tech writing

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Qualification

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R of tech writing

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S of tech writing

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Straight Sentence

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T of tech writing

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Thoroughness

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U of tech writing

33
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V of tech writing

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W of tech writing

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Word Choice

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Y of tech writing

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Z of tech writing

37
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Roadblocks in Choosing Topics for Technical Reports

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1 editorializing
2 fuzzy topics
3 tough technical reports

38
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Careful w recording and presentation of data.

39
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being brief

40
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When you write report, u are in authority of it

41
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After u developed confidence, next thing is ring pf authority.

42
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Stressing major points

43
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Devices used by the writer to make the report easy to read and understand.

44
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Report must be free from any grammatical error.

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Grammatical Correctness

45
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Acknowledge other person’s ideas and info used in report (bibliography or footnotes)

46
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use of charts, graphs, diagrams, tables

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Illustration

47
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Qualify collected data for judicious weighing.

48
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Main objective of report is to communicate ____________, which involved interpretation and formulation of conclusions.

49
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Process of showing relations among groups of things and classes of groups.

50
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Refers to the gen appearance of report.

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Mechanical Neatness

51
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Follow acceptable arrangement of different parts of a report.

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Normal Procedure

52
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Pretend to be another person, an uninterested observer, or an innocent bystander.

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Objectivity

53
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Basic step in all activities. Saves time and effort.

54
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Most scientific thinking is based on concept of change- what is TRUE at a given instant may no longer be true after. When you present the results. “This is true under given conditions”

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Qualification

55
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Most important phase. More than just checking spelling, punctuations, spacing and margins.

56
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A sentence consists of 1 idea or 2 closely related ideas.

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Straight Sentence

57
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When u choose ur subject, u made a contract of providing it a thorough treatment.

Begins from the time you started writing until you finished it.

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Thoroughness

58
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A unified report has every part a correlation to the main topic.

59
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Give attention to proper choice of words in writing

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Word Choice

60
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A report is not written for a writer, it is aimed at audience.

61
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Write only things worth saying, and invigorating

62
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Hardest to define but most commonly written. Type of tech report that provides background on a topic.

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Technical-Background Report

63
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The most familiar of all types of reports. You may have written backup procedures for the jobs you do at your work, or shot user manuals for an appliance, equipment or program.

A

Instructions

64
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These reports study a problem or opportunity, and make a recommendation.

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Feasibility, Recommendation and Evaluation Reports

65
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Refers to actual work someone does in a laboratory or in the field - experiments and surveys.

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Primary Research Report

66
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In this type, u discuss product design in terms of its construction, materials, functions, features, operation and market potential.

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Technical Specifications

67
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Monster documents of hundreds or thousands of pages.

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Report-length proposal

68
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A plan to start a new business or expand an existing one.

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Business plans

69
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Brainstorming Devices

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  • your major, future courses
  • magazines, journals, periodical indexes
  • career plans, current work
  • ideas for improvements
  • problems
70
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Roadblocks in Choosing Topics for Tech Reports

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  • Editorializing
  • Fuzzy Topics
  • Tough Technical Topics

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