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35 Cards in this Set
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The intended readers of a document
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Audience
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Choices that affect the public good
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Ethical Choices
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The limited use of material without seeking permission
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Fair Use
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The organizational layout and physical look of a documnet
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Format
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Writing focused on readers' expectations and uses of a document
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Reader based text
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The physical, social, and psychological dynamics in which wroting occurs
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Situation
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How a writer adapts his/her language to match the writing situation
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Style
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Devices, programs, processes, or machines developed through applied research (computers, automobiles, refrigerators etc)
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Technology
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The stance a wroter takes in relationship to his or her topic and audience
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Tone
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Also called FIELD TEST, writers/designers test the effectiveness of a document, process, or product by having members of the target audience use it. Data from these tests help with revising documents and products
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User Test
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The readers for and to whom technicla wroters write
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Audience
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The social, organizational, and personal necessities that motivate technicla writing
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Needs
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Groups within which we communicate through actions, speech, or ariting
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Discourse Communities
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Specialized language (words, phrases)of a profession or company
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Jargon
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The objective that apiece of writing is designed to achieve
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Purpose
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A cyclical process in which one returns to earlier stages in the cycle as one gathers more information
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recursive process
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The social, psychological, and enviromental conditions under which writing is either undertaken or read
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Situation
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Analyzing the situation, needs, audience, and purpose for a writing task
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SNAP analysis
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A specific style, type, or category of technicla writing
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Technical Genre
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The recursive actions involved in producing a piece of writing
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writing process
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An idea-generating strategy in which all ideas are equally valued at the initial stage of the writing process
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Brainstorming
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Customers or others who seek your help or services
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clientele
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Working or cooperating with others on tasks or projects
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Collaboration
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A workplace associate or a member of your professional community
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Colleague
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The process of identifying, discussing, and resolving conflicts that arise during a collaborative project
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Conflict Resolution
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A collectively arrived at and agreed upon opinion
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Consensus
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The process of assessing and commenting on the work of others
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critiquing
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A necessary part or element in a multi-part process
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Constituent task
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An organizationa; schema based on successive orders or classes, with each lower order dependent upon the one above it
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Heirarchial Order
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An organizing technique that allows the writer to visualize recurrent rela tionships among tasks in a process
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Mapping
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Wrting that focuses on the knowledge, needs, and expectations of potentail readers
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reader-based prose
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Using poster boards or slides to illustrate the parts of a whole document or project- written report, proposal, or manual- and the relationships between those parts
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Storyboarding
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Analyzing a process according to the tasks involved and the connections among the tasks
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Task Analysis
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Using the least amount of text necessary to explain a process or procedure, relying on graphical elements to carry most of the explanatory information
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Textual minimalism
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Readers whose primary sources of the day-to-day information come from the visual media (television, film, computer displays)
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Visually oriented readers
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