Technical Report Writing (English Specialization) LET Reviewer 2019. This review material for 2019 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) covers various topics in Technical Report Writing including business letter writing, parts and types of technical reports, and minutes of meeting. Try answering these questions and do further research to verify whether your answers are correct. You may also submit your answers to [email protected] for further feedback.
- A user’s manual (output of technical writing) enumerates and describes a process or procedure on how to operate a particular mechanism. This proves that technical writing functions:
- As basis for public relations
- As a record of business
- As report provider to stockholders
- As provider of instructions
- Which of these can be considered as primary source of information?
- A Journal entry
- Encyclopedia
- Books
- Web page
- The content of the letter was dictated by Mr. Ricardo M. Raagas to Ms. Mary D. Santos, the typist. How should the dictator’s and typist’s initials be printed?
- RMR/MDS
- RMR/mds
- MDS/rmr
- MDS/RMR
- Which of these best defines a transmittal letter?
- A business letter used in acknowledging the order received
- A letter used in applying/seeking for a job
- A letter used in turning over the report to whomever it is intended for
- A communication letter used in applying for credit for the purpose of getting goods, etc.
- This part of a business letter points out that an item or some data are included or attached to the letter.
- Enclosure
- Postscript
- Carbon Copy
- Reference Line
- Which of these can be considered as miscellaneous parts of a business letter?
- Complimentary Close, Attention Line, Subject Line, and Signature
- Reference Line, Postscript, Enclosure, and Inside Address
- Carbon Copy, Salutation, Inside Address, and Letterhead
- Attention Line, Reference Line, Typist Line, and Postscript
- Which of the bibliographical entries below does not follow the standard MLA format?
- Bell, Stewart.The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist. Mississauga, ON: Wiley, 2005.
- Meidenbauer, Jörg, ed.Discoveries and Inventions: From Prehistoric to Times. Lisse: Rebo, 2004.
- Suzuki, David E., McConnell, Amanda F. and De Cambra, Maria H.The SacredBalance: A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature. Vancouver: Greystone, 2002.
- Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter.The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed. 2nd ed. Toronto: Harper, 2005.
- It is an end product (output) of technical writing that comes in a summarized form of any longer piece of writing.
- Memorandum
- Abstract
- Policy
- Brochure
- It is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business meeting of that group.
- Motion
- Attendance
- Quorum
- Participants
- ‘The curriculum calls for group learning (between classmates) and collaborative teaching (between teachers)’. If the sentence is contained in a technical report, it uses what technique?
- Formal Definition
- Classification
- Informal Definition
- Interpretation
- Which of the following is NOT true about informal definitions?
- Informal definitions are employed only when the writer is reasonably certain that it is the term alone and not the referent which is unfamiliar to the reader.
- Informal definitions are partial, not complete definitions.
- They do not appear to be serious interruptions.
- None of the Above.
- In which principle of technical writing, the writer must assume that “the reader is intelligent but uninformed”?
- Understanding the reader
- Using formal English
- Organizing the material
- Adopting Ethical standards
- A preliminary part of a formal technical report that tells a short but concise description of what the report takes up in detail.
- Cover Page
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Summary
- It is an orderly systematic arrangement of related things in accordance with governing principles or basis.
- Classification
- Interpretation
- Partition
- Definition
- In business letter writing, which of the following best describes a subject line?
- A line that points out the addressee to previous data of significance to the present
- A part declaring in a shortest phrase what the letter is all about
- A line calling the attention of the person or department
- A part pointing out that an item is included or attached to the letter
- In formal definition, it gives the distinguishing traits or qualities of the term
- Species
- Differentia
- Genus
- Class
- Usually, this citation placed at a bottom of a page acknowledges the source of an idea or information used in the text. In technical writing, this may also contain formal or informal definitions of terms.
- Parenthetical Note
- Glossary
- Footnote
- Definition of Terms Page
- It is a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up, by beginning with the call to order and ending with adjournment.
- Motion
- Agenda
- Minutes
- Program
- It is a proposal formally submitted to a meeting for discussion and possible adoption as a resolution.
- Resolution
- Bill
- Motion
- Agenda
- Usually presented in printed form, this report format requires responses which are numbers, words, and/or phrases.
- Letter Report
- Form Report
- Memorandum Report
- Field Report
- The basic part of a technical report that presents the suggestions to future researchers and other beneficiaries of the study based on the conclusion.
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Recommendation
- Discussion
- Prepared by an organizational secretary, it is a written communication that informs or reminds the members of the specific time, date and venue of the meeting.
- Notice of Meeting
- Announcement
- Minutes of Meeting
- Business Letter
- Examples of proofreading errors include all of the following EXCEPT:
- Sentence Fragments
- Incorrect Abbreviations
- Errors in Reasoning
- Misspelled Words
- What roles can technical communicators play?
- Preparing Proposals
- Producing Newsletters
- Editing Reports
- All of the Above
- Which of these is a cause of an inefficient document?
- Jargon or Technical Expressions
- Confusing Layout
- Confusing Organization
- All of the Above
- Which is the best way to explain how to do something?
- Go over the difficult steps first.
- Arrange the steps in order.
- List the steps according to preference.
- Arrange steps according to importance.
- Which of these statements include statistics?
- We went to the ball game last Saturday.
- A baseball has 108 stitches.
- The ball game was delayed because of rain.
- A catcher’s mitt is thicker than other gloves.
- Which of the following will be best at decreasing job stress?
- Finding job that is not challenging.
- Sucking it up and just doing the job.
- Engaging in meaningful leisure activities outside of work.
- Focusing on work demands at the expense of getting adequate sleep.
- Which statement best explains cause and effect?
- You should think before you speak.
- One thing leads to another.
- Sometimes things just happen.
- Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
- Which of the following is the name for the most common type of classification practiced in writing courses?
- Division
- Multiplication
- Comparison
- Extended Definition
- Which of the following is an example of a progress report?
- Bid to write training manuals for a health care corporation.
- Presentation of the policies and procedures required by a health care corporation.
- Report on research done to ascertain whether online multimedia training for health care professionals is a viable option.
- Summary of the end-of-year-one status of a two-year project to develop multimedia-based training modules for healthcare professionals.
- A progress report can be defined as:
- A document that reports on the research progress made over the past year in a particular field such as cancer research.
- A document that reports on the status of a project, for example, the work that has been completed, the work that is in progress, and the work that is planned
- A document that explains how to operate a high-tech mechanism.
- A document that reports research findings–most importantly, the data gathered and the conclusions from that data.
- Failing to cite the source of information that you borrow is called:
- Felony
- Documentation
- Misdemeanor
- Plagiarism
- The inside address contains:
- Only the name of the company or person to receive the letter.
- Only the address of the company that receives the letter.
- Both the name of and the address of the company or person receiving the letter.
- None of the above given.
- The signature section of a business letter includes:
- A written signature first, then a typed or printed one.
- A typed or printed one first, then a written one.
- A typed or printed one first, then a typed one.
- None of the above.
- The heading in a business letter includes:
- The address the letter is being sent to and the date:
- The address of the person sending the letter and the date.
- The addresses of both the recipient and sender and the date.
- None of the above.
- The most important idea may be stressed through the use of bracket, a parenthesis, a pair of quotation marks, a pair of hyphens or dashes.
- Punctuation
- Repetition
- Position
- Capitalization
- This part of a business letter points out that an item or some data are included or attached to the letter.
- Enclosure
- Postscript
- Carbon Copy
- Reference Line
- A preliminary part of a formal technical report that tells a short but concise description of what the report takes up in detail.
- Cover Page
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Summary
- It is an orderly systematic arrangement of related things in accordance with governing principles or basis.
- Classification
- Interpretation
- Partition
- Definition