Objective questions Identify the best response for each question by highlighting the letter and response. 1. Which of the following situations suggests that a group's collaborative writing process may produce an inferior document? a. the group shares a common goal b. the group experiences no conflict c. group members act as the audience for the document d. group members divide up the workload 2. Which of the following graphics would be best suited for showing the relative size of parts that make up a whole? a. photograph b. table c. pie chart d. flowchart e. organization chart 3. Which of the following graphics would be best suited to showing the stages of a procedure or a process? a. checklist b. drawing C. bar graph d. organization chart e. flowchart 4. A progress report might do all of the following EXCEPT provide information on the status of the project b. include a budget table showing cost overruns c. announce a revised completion date for the project d. submit the deliverable 022 -6- Roland Nord 5. Which of the following is not true of readers of instructions? Readers typically read straight through instructions from beginning to end. b. Readers typically read only as much as they need to accomplish their task. C. Readers typically are attracted to instructions with illustrations. d. Readers often blame themselves when they have problems with instructions even though the instructions may be incorrect. . 6. Data from a usability test on a software product's user manual will probably help the writers answer all of the following questions EXCEPT a. Is information easy to find in the manual? b. Is the manual likely to reduce customer-support calls? C. Are users likely to use the manual's tutorial? d. Is the software product competitively priced? Use track changes modify the spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and phrasing of the following displayed lists: The purposes for the assignment are To analyze the rhetorical situation Quickly, and efficiently organize technical information to using appropriate software to produce technical document In the latter part of the course, the instructor emphasized the following purposes to search and document technical information to effectively calibrate technical communication tasks preform user testing Use track changes modify the spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and phrasing of the following paragraph and run-in list: In chapter 11: Designing print and on-line documents, Markle and Selber provide for principals of document design. 1. contrast, 2. Repetition, 3, alignment and 4. Proximity