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Anticipate and answer questions, help people perform a task, persuade people to do something (All Correct) Answer ✔✔Technical Communication seeks to... Let the data speak for themselves Answer ✔✔When trying to make sense of information, people should never... As long as a document is persuasive, it need not be clear and efficient. Answer ✔✔Of the following statements, which is least accurate? Consistently applies one cultural perspective Answer ✔✔An effective technical communicator does all of the following except... Headings, lists, bullets, and diagrams Answer ✔✔What are some examples of visual cues in technical writing?
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Anticipate and answer questions, help people perform a task, persuade people to do something (All Correct) Answer ✔✔Technical Communication seeks to... Let the data speak for themselves Answer ✔✔When trying to make sense of information, people should never... As long as a document is persuasive, it need not be clear and efficient. Answer ✔✔Of the following statements, which is least accurate? Consistently applies one cultural perspective Answer ✔✔An effective technical communicator does all of the following except... Headings, lists, bullets, and diagrams Answer ✔✔What are some examples of visual cues in technical writing? Genres are patterns that reflect how communities, including people in technical workplaces, get things done. They shape a project's content, organization, style, and design, as well as the medium in which it is delivered. Answer ✔✔What is a genre? Informed persons who are not experts Answer ✔✔Semi-technical audiences consist of... Your brainstorming process. Answer ✔✔Your audience will have preferences about all of the following except... Plain talk. Answer ✔✔The North American business culture prefers... Audience and purpose Answer ✔✔Creating a(n) ______ statement will help you identify your readers and their needs.
The writer's legal liabilities Answer ✔✔Which of the following is NOT an explicit social or psychological constraint? Identify values, goals, or experiences you share with audience. Answer ✔✔When preparing an argument... See the issue their way, rephrase their position in your own words, explore possible compromises they might accept, reach agreement on what to do next (all of the above). Answer ✔✔When others offer an opposing view, try to... Acknowledges facts, interprets facts, ask for direct action (A,b,c) Answer ✔✔A claim can be a statement that... complement, compliment Answer ✔✔In ______ to my work in administration, I also have experience training employees. I _____ my employees when they do good work. Discreet, discrete Answer ✔✔We asked a few ________ questions so that no one would be aware that we were ordering five pizza with five ______ pizza toppings. Internalization, identification, compliance Answer ✔✔The three levels of response to persuasion are _____, ____, and _____. Rational connection and relationship connection strategies. Answer ✔✔Strategies for effectively connecting with the audience include... False Answer ✔✔A blunt approach works best with audiences from other cultures. Name and contact info, education, related work experience, skills, are all standard parts of a resume Answer ✔✔Which of the following is NOT a standard part of a resume?
False Answer ✔✔An overview is placed near the end of a document. False Answer ✔✔All cultures consider digression harmful to a document's unity and purpose Unified Answer ✔✔For a paragraph to be ______, all of its contents must expand on the topic sentence. True Answer ✔✔Combining sentences can help de-emphasize some ideas and emphasize others. False Answer ✔✔Avoid person-first language for people with disabilities. a,b, and c. Answer ✔✔Sentences using active voice... is appropriate for letters and memos. Answer ✔✔Unjustified text... None of these answers is true Answer ✔✔When adding headings, be sure to... organizing similar items. Answer ✔✔Bulleted lists are appropriate for... Use very bright colors to draw attention to text. Answer ✔✔Which of the following statements is least accurate? Relaying information within an organization Answer ✔✔A memo is most appropriate for... Single-space within paragraphs and double-space between paragraphs Answer ✔✔To format a memo,... throughout the letter Answer ✔✔The "you" perspective in a letter is most appropriate...
Who made the birthday cake? With whose oven? And with whom are you going to the birthday party? And who's giving you a ride? Answer ✔✔it can be difficult to know when to correctly use who, whose, who's, or whom in a sentence. Which choice of the following uses these words correctly? The boss hasn't curbed his behavior completely - he's just more discreet about it. To be able to understand how we describe discrete characteristics of a species is a goal of taxonomy. Answer ✔✔Which of the following is correct? The client will be purchasing double-pane, bulletproof glass for the ground floor of the office. It is important to wear protective clothing while on the trail, because the bite from a bullet ant causes excruciating pain. Answer ✔✔Which of the following sentences is correct? Line graph. Answer ✔✔For illustrating a tend over time, the appropriate figure is typically a... Show a hierarchy of relationship among departments. Answer ✔✔Organization charts... Use numbers or gradations that are evenly divided Answer ✔✔When constructing bar graphs,... concise Answer ✔✔Definitions should be... the questions the audience will want answered. Answer ✔✔The specific strategies of expansion you choose will depend on... limiting the definition to one sentence Answer ✔✔Which of the following is not a method of expansion? False Answer ✔✔Definitions should never be placed in the margin of a text. Definitions have legal, ethical, societal, and global implications Answer ✔✔Which of the following statements is most accurate? [This is not a grammar question.]
finding a definite answer. Answer ✔✔Thinking critically about research depends on all of the following except... All of the answers are correct. Answer ✔✔An effective strategy for global technical communication is to... A, b, and c Answer ✔✔Sources of conflict in collaborative groups include... A, b, and c Answer ✔✔Examples of ethical abuses in technical communication include... limit your sources to major background studies Answer ✔✔When choosing sources to support your proposal,... An inducement for readers to act. Answer ✔✔Avoid all of the following in a proposal except... realistic Answer ✔✔Besides being clear, the proposal plan must be.. All of these answers are correct Answer ✔✔An effective proposal... conference papers Answer ✔✔Reference works include all of the following except... High levels of air pollution cause damage to the respiratory tract. The slaughter of pandas for their pelts has caused the panda population to drastically decline. Answer ✔✔It is important that verbs agree with the subject. Which of the following is correct? Minh did not understand the Nordic language: moreover, he was unfamiliar with their customs. National foods are not always salt-free; celery, for example, contains more sodium than most people thing Answer ✔✔Transitional expressions (expressions that include conjunctive adverbs like however, therefore, and moreover) serve as bridges between sentence or clauses (parts of sentences). Which of the following is correct?
My manager spends long hours every spring evaluating our inventory, this part of management is nauseating. Answer ✔✔Which of the following is a comma splice? All of these answers are correct Answer ✔✔Which of the following is an example of faulty statistical analysis Correlation Answer ✔✔The numerical measure of the strength of the relationship between variables is called.. an inference, Answer ✔✔When we come to a conclusion about what we don't know by reasoning from what we do know, we make... Terminology used to report statistics often hides their real meaning Answer ✔✔Which of the following statements is most accurate? C and D Answer ✔✔When preparing a summary, you should... Presents the message of the main text and appears just after the title page. Answer ✔✔The informative abstract... Be understandable if read as a self-contained document Answer ✔✔A summary should... A, b, but not c. Answer ✔✔Ethical pitfalls of summaries include... Have managers and other decision makers as their primary audience. Answer ✔✔Feasibility reports and recommendation reports are similar in that they both Informational, analytical Answer ✔✔The two categories of informal reports are _____ and ____.