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Technical Reportingg
Report revising and Editing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Large-Scale Revising: Content Consists of what mains things? | Orgainization,Balance,Description,Audience,Conclusion |
| Orgainization is | Group materials into categories with an outline |
| Balance is | Do your main categories contain equal amounts of info? |
| Audince is | does your reader need to know this? |
| Small-Scale Revising: Style Consists of | Adding examples,transitions |
| Examples should be added because | readers learn general principles through specific examples |
| Transitions should be added because | they introduce sections with short that have short paragraphs outlining section centent and purpose and should include transition words in sentenses to make relationships clear (therefore,when,because) |
| The prupose of transitional paragraphs are... | to connect to one section of the text to the next |
| the structure of transitional paragraphs... | the summary of previous point and how it relates to the next point |
| Body Paragraphs | -develop one main point within topic sentence-main idea logically follows preceding idea/paragraph |
| the topic sentence | main idea always goes in the topic sentence, if main idea is complex start with an over view "the shoreline construction was completed in three phases: prep,delivering materials, and erecting structures" |
| The Support | Specific detail to general topic statement.Definekey terms and use examples |
| Paragraph length | 75-125 words |
| Coherence: Transitions :Common Logical relationships | :addition: also, moreover, in addition, |
| Coherence: Transitions :comparison | : likewise, similarly |
| Coherence: Transitions :Contrast |