English 6

All of these adjectives refer to technical writing EXCEPT for:

Laconic

Ambiguous

Honest

Graphic

All of these are technical writing criteria EXCEPT for:

Coherence

Cohesion

Validity

Complexity

Which of these is preferable in technical writing?

Using personal pronouns

Using mostly the present tense

Plagiarising

Writing complicated sentences

Which of these is the least formal:

Consider, begin

Judge, initiate

Think, start

Deem, launch

Which of these are informal:

A little, many, plenty of

Slightly, several, abundant

Somewhat, many, numerous

A bit, lots of, plenty of

All of these are formal words EXCEPT for:

Therefore, in addition

Thus, likewise

Hence, furthermore

So, besides

In technical writing ______ lists are preferable to denote like items.

Bulleted

Numeric

Letter

Alphabetical

A lead-in to the list, indicating the meaning or purpose of the list, is punctuated with a/an ______

Colon (:)

Comma (,)

Period (.)

Semi-colon (;)

In technical writing ______ lists are preferable to denote sequential items.

Bulleted

Numeric

Letter

Alphabetical

Which of these rules applies to correcting the mistake in the following list: There are three types of lists: • numeric; • bulleted; • letter;

A lead-in to the list should be followed by a period (.)

The list items should be punctuated with commas (,) if they are complete sentences (,)

The list items should be punctuated with commas (,) if they are not complete sentences

Only the last item in the list should be punctuated with a semi-colon (;)

Choose the wrong statement:

Abbreviations and acronyms are never spelt out in full

Abbreviations and acronyms are always spelt out in full

Abbreviations and acronyms are spelt out in full the first time they’re used

Abbreviations and acronyms are spelt out in full in the footnote.

Choose the wrong statement:

In abbreviations units of measurement named after a person have an upper-case first letter

Abbreviated units of measurement are followed by a period

There should always be one blank space between a number and a unit of measurement

The same abbreviation is used for the singular and plural form of a unit of measurement.

Choose the correct abbreviations of the words “approximately, figure, page”.

Approx., fig., p.

App., fig., p.

Appr., F., p.p.

Approx., F., p.

Choose the sentence in which the abbreviations are used correctly:

The space is 6,5 cm wide, 4 ¾ cm deep, and 15 cm long.

The space is 6 ½ ft wide, 4,75 cm deep, and 15 cm long.

The space is 6,5 cm wide, 4,75 cm deep, and 15 cm long.

The space is 6,5 cm wide, 4,75 ft deep, and 15 cm long.

Choose the correct abbreviation:

Sec – second

Hz – Hertz

Kb – kilobyte

Bps – bits per second

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