EN360 Technical Communications Online Quiz 3 Answers (Ashworth College)

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A.
Information should be ordered in a logical progression.
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B.
An overview is required in all technical documents.
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C.
Questions should be avoided as headings.
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D.
Topic statements are never longer than one line.
Question 4 of 20
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Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A. Readers of printed pages tolerate longer passages of text than do readers of web pages.
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B. In technical writing, the topic sentence usually appears first in the paragraph.
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C. All cultures consider digression harmful to a document's unity and purpose.
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D. A support paragraph provides transition within a document.
Question 5 of 20
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The numerical measure of the strength of the relationship between variables is called:
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A. causation.
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B. a confounding factor.
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C. correlation.
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D. a meta-analysis.
Question 6 of 20
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Which of the following is true?
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A. Instead of a summary, a thesis or topic sentence is usually sufficient to preview the content of
letters and memos.
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B. Readers expect a summary to be complete, yet concise.
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C. Never assume that global audiences will understand facts that you consider common
knowledge.