(1) Why it’s necessary to label the visual aids?
Answer: While it is important for you to eliminate unnecessary details form your visual aids, it is also critical to include labels for the important content. Labels also help people know what they are seeing when they read a figure.
2. Characteristic of good interviewer
Good interviewers are good at collecting information, listening, and probing, so should develop a set of interview questions and decide on their sequence.
(1) importance of introduction section of report writing
A report's introduction summarizes the contents by describing the purpose of the report and giving an overview of the main ideas expressed within it.
(2) how to improve the ability of good listing
You can improve your listening ability by becoming more aware of the habits that distinguish good listeners from bad.
(3) why we should make the visual aids easy
Make your Visual Aids Easy to Find:
If you place the figure farther away than that (for instance in an appendix), you can help your readers by providing the number of the page on which the figure may found.
How make visual aid easy?
- By Informative titles
- By using appropriate objects
- By removing unnecessary details
what do u understand by the word spatial?
Spatially:
If you are studying a physical object, study it left to right, top to bottom, inside to outside.
what do u know abt term abbreviations?
Abbreviations, shortened forms of words, are commonly employed in scientific and technical writing.
important functions of progress report?
Progress Report: The progress report states the progress made towards the goal during the reporting period, discusses significant costs and scheduling issues, and lists future objectives to be carried out. Project monitoring and accountability are the main objectives of a progress report.
Distinct features of empirical research report?
An empirical research is a research that reports the results of a study and uses data derived from actual observation or experimentation. Such research is used to answer a question or test a hypothesis
steps of planning oral presentation
preparing for the presentation:
• Knowledge of the audience
• Knowledge of subject
• Use of time
• Rehearsal
• Personal appearance and grooming.
Pictographs
Pictographs are a special kind of bar graph in which the bars are replaced by drawings that represent the thing being described.
Flowcharts
Flow charts are an excellent means of representing the succession of events in a process or procedure. The simplest flow charts use rectangles, circles, diamonds, or other geometric shapes to represent events, and arrows to show the progress from one event to another.
Difference b/t informational and analytical reports
a. Informational
• Inform or instruct – present information
• Reader sees the details of events, activities or conditions.
• No analysis of the situation, no conclusion and no recommendations.
b. Analytical
• Written to solve problems
• Information is analyzed.
• Conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made
c. Persuasive
• An extension of analytical reports: main focus is to sell an idea, a service, or a product.
Q.2 Adverb modifier
Adverb Modifiers: Adverbs should be placed as close as possible to the words or phrases that they modify. If you allow an adverb to be separated from the word or phrase that it modifies, the interpretation of the adverb may become ambiguous. Always place a quantity adverb immediately before the word it modifies.
Q.3 Three points of Progress Report
Progress Reports:
• Typical Writing Situations
• The Readers’ Concern with the Future
• The Questions Readers Most Often Ask
Q.5 orientation phrase
In the orientation phase, group members socialize, establish their roles, and agree on their reason for meeting.
Criteria of reports
Criteria are the standards that you apply in a feasibility study to evaluate the alternative courses of action which you are considering. For instance, to assess the feasibility of opening the new branch office, Shazi uses many criteria such as:
• The existence of a large enough market
• A good possibility of attracting depositors away from the competition.
• The likelihood that profits on the deposits at the branch will exceed the expenses of operating it.
• The reasonableness of the financial outlay required to open the office.
scope of instructions
Information about the scope of the instructions answers the reader’s questions, “What kinds of things will we learn to do in these instructions -- and what things won’t we learn?” For example, the writers of a Tire Uniformity Manual would answer that question in their third or fourth sentence. The writers of the Macintosh manual answer the same question in this way. The manual tells you how to use the mouse and keyboard to control your Macintosh
types of interviews
Categorizing interviews:
• Job interviews
• Informative interviews
• Persuasive interviews
• Exit interview
• Evaluation interview
• Counseling interviews
• Conflict-resolution interviews
• Disciplinary interviews
• Termination interviews
rephrase dangling modifiers
A modifier whose connection to the sentence is implied or intended but not actually made explicit is said to dangle. Dangling modifiers detract from the clarity of your writing, so you should make sure your modifiers are properly connected to the words they modify. To repair a dangling modifier, add the noun or phrase to whom the modifier was intended to modify and rephrase the sentence accordingly.
comma splice and how to correct it
Comma Splice:
Never link two independent clauses with just a comma; this is known as a comma splice error.
Examples:
The sun is high, put on some sun block.
This computer doesn't make sense to me, it came without a manual.
You can correct a comma splice in four ways:
• Separate the independent clauses into two separate sentences. Punctuate both sentences with periods.
• Replace the comma with a semicolon or with a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb such as however or furthermore. (The conjunctive adverb is then normally followed by a comma.)
• Replace the comma with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
• Make one of the clauses into a subordinate clause.
1= identify, which of the following statement is the use of a line graph?
- To show the appearance of something that readers have never seen. photographs
- To display interaction between two or more variables. line graph
2=Name any two steps of listening. (2)
What happens when you listen.
• Sensing
• Interpreting
• Evaluating
• Remembering
• Responding
3=Choose the last gender based expression and fill that. (2)
i. There’s a car accident a head, I wonder if anyone has call a----- (police officer, police man)
ii. What qualification does anyone need to be a -----------? (Fire fighter. Fireman)
4=which of the following question is solved by the recommendations section of a report? (2)
Recommendations: Just as conclusions grow out of interpretations of the facts, recommendations grow out of conclusions. They answer the reader’s question, “If your conclusions are valid, what should we do?” Depending on many factors, including the number and complexity of the things you are suggesting, you may state your recommendations in a single sentence or in many pages.
5=explain the budget statement? (3)
Budget statements: A budget statement is a table that shows how money will be gained or spent. It may be very simple or very elaborate depending on your reader’s needs.
6= what is the importance of facts in report writing? (3)
your facts are the individual pieces of information that underlie and support your conclusions and recommendations. If your report for example, Ayesha’s is based upon interviews, your facts are the things that people told you. If your report is based upon laboratory, field, or library research, your facts are the verifiable pieces of information that you gathered.
7= make three sentences by using subject – verb (SV) structure. (3)
Subject-verb sentences (SV)
Example:
The programmer (S) quits (V).
9= write detail note on proposal. (5)
A proposal is a special type of analytical report designed to get products, plans, or projects accepted by outside business or government clients.
11= what rules for capitalizing multiple wood titles and proper names? (5)
Rules for Capitalizing Multiple-Word Titles and Proper Names Unless you are following a documentation style that specifies otherwise, observe the following rules for capitalizing multiple word titles and proper nouns.
Capitalize all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions. Capitalize any word, regardless of the part of speech, if it is the first or last word of the title or subtitle or a proper name or if it follows a punctuation mark indicating a break in the title.
12= which important step should be followed to organize an outline of oral presentation? (5)
Oral presentations can be formal or informal, depending upon their explicit and implicit purposes and the delivery situation. An oral presentation can be almost any report type, such as a design review, a proposal, or a conference talk.
Whatever the specific type, however, an effective oral presentation is carefully planned with your objectives in mind and pays close attention to the demands of your audience
Effective oral communication is a combination of many skills:
• Outlining and planning
• Preparing overheads or other display media
• Rehearsing
• Delivery