Shawn is using a visual that accompanies a description in a report. What criterion will help her determine the best visual to use?
Visuals may need to be enhanced or altered to convey information clearly.
Visual should not show elements or items already described in the text.
Visuals should help to enhance the overall visual appeal of the document in which they are used.
Visuals should clarify and accentuate the description.
Visuals should be highly abstract so they can work with more than one description
All of the above.
Chris is writing a recommendation report concerning the need for two much-needed runways at his city’s airport. Among other points he has researched are the following: noise ordinances, residential safety, and ecological issues associated with larger planes and additional air traffic at the airport. Chris may also use which of these strategies in his report?
Exemplification showing how larger and wealthier cities expanded their airports.
Comparison and contrast of entirely feasible means of expansion that are currently outside his city’s budget.
Adjustment of data to more strongly promote benefits that the city would view most favorably.
Analysis of the economic benefits of expanding the airport.
What must one do when forming definitions in a technical document?
Assesses and define terms for any possible audience who might access the document.
Create the most precise definition possible.
Create the extended definitions for every technical term used in a document.
Asses the primary reader’s knowledge and skill level and write definitions for that audience
What statement accurately describes the work of technical communication?
Technical communicators working for a nonprofit or governmental organizations may use the ideas of others without giving credit.
Technical communicators may adjust data to align with their assumptions.
Technical communicators should inject personal bias into their reports.
Technical communicators should write for their audiences’ cultural sense of ethics.
Technical communicators may modify a photo to focus on relevant data only.
Among technical documents, proposals may be defined by which of the following?
Technical business documents that persuasively offer solutions to a problem.
Technical business documents that do not persuade, but present only technical descriptions of problems.
Technical business documents that present only technical descriptions of possible solutions to a problem.
Technical business documents that use information only to promote an author’s own opinion.
Which correctly describes the use of visuals in technical documents?
They never have to be cited or documented.
If they are in the public domain, they should be cited and documented to assist readers.
If they are generated by the author, they have to be cited or documented.
They must be cited but not documented.