Assignment task: A Concise Guide to Tech. Comm. (9781460407141)
Q1. What differentiates primary from secondary research methods?
Q2. Give an example of a question that cannot be answered "yes" or "no."
Q3. How long should you schedule for an interview?
Q4. What does it mean to be an "active" listener?
Q5. What are the advantages of open-ended questions?
Q6. What are the advantages of closed-ended questions?
Q7. Name three criteria for evaluating the credibility of print material.
Q8. Name one additional criterion for evaluating the credibility of online sources.
Q9. Name a discipline that prefers quotations from sources and one that prefers paraphrases.
Q10. Name three kinds of information that you should always cite.
Q11. What techniques help readers of reports skim and scan them?
Q12. What is one of the purposes of a status report?
Q13. What subheadings are typically used in a status report?
Q12. What are the two kinds of white papers?
Q13. What is the main rhetorical challenge when writing a white paper?
Q14. Should you mention limitations of a product in a white paper?
Q15. Define a recommendation report.
Q16. What purpose does an executive summary fulfill?
Q17. What is the difference between the results section and the recommendations section?
Q18. What should you include in an appendix?