GISEND NI MARIA NGA PICS Flashcards
1
Q
what are the activities in technical and academic writing
A
- planning
- gathering info
- drafting
- revising
- editing
2
Q
what are ways we can expand a formal definition
A
- giving the uses or functions of a term
- giving the origin of the term
- giving its causes and/or effects, advantages or disadvantages
- illustrating or describing its appearance
- explaining what it is not
- analyzing its parts
- classifying it
- stating where it is from
- giving its collocations
- giving examples
3
Q
what are the dominant patterns in technical writing
A
- definition
- description of a process
- description of a device or mechanism
- classification
- analysis
- synthesis
