Technical Communication (TC)

Question bank
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Unit-1

Q.1 Define
a. Technical Communication b. Listening c. Communication Process/ Cycle d. Encoding
e. Decoding f. Medium g. Feedback/Reply
Q.2 Answer in brief.
a. What is One-way communication (with diagram)?
b. Explain Two-way communication (with diagram).
c. What do you mean by technical competence?
d. What is ‘Style in technical communication’?
Q.3 Answer in detail.
a. What are different communication skill (hint LSRW)?
b. What are the importance of Technical Communication?
c. Explain ‘Style in Technical Communication’. How can it (Linguistic ability) be improved
(hint discuss the 7Cs)?
d. What are different forms of Technical Communication (hint, 3 forms: Oral-Written, External-
Internal, General-Technical comm.)?
e. Explain the different aspects of Technical Communication (hint subject competence, linguistic
competence and organizational competence).
f. Technical communication is the essence of organizational life. Explain.
g. Analyse the Cycle/Process of Communication.

h. Discuss the structures/ patterns of organization. (The 7- patterns)

Unit-2
Q.1 Define.
a. Technical texts/data b. c. Online Media d. Note Making e. Chronological
Order f. Emphatic Order
Q.2 Answer in detail.
a. What do you understand by organization of technical text/data? Write the basic pattern to
organize a technical text.
b. What do you mean by ‘Print and online media’?
c. Discuss the different factors affecting information designing (hint: use the 7Cs).
 THIS UNIT WILL INCLUDE MAJORLY, A TECHNICAL PASSAGE/ TEXT FOLLOWED BY ITS
COMPREHENSION/, SUMMARY WRITING AND THEN NOTE-MAKING.
d. What is comprehension of Technical texts. Explain the ERRQ and the SQ3R reading methods of technical text.
e. What is a Technical text? What reading methods you observe to apprehend any Technical texts?
f. What is note making? Write the different strategies involved in note making.
g. Explain Organization of notes, in a note writing.
h. What is note making? What are the different organization methods in?
i. What is Information or data collection? Write the different methods of information Collection.
j. What do you understand by print and online media? How will you write for an effective media
information?
k. What do you understand by print and online media? Suggest the different Effective Writing
Styles for Print and Online Media

Unit-3
Q.1 Define.
a. Technical Writing b. Pre-writing c. Drafting. d. Editing/revising e. E-mail f. Memo. g.
Minutes (of meeting) h.
Q.2 Grammar exercise.
A. Insert appropriate modal verbs.
 i. He …… stop smoking. (advice)
ii. I……like to have a cup of coffee. (wish)
iii. ….. you give me a pen? (request)
iv. …….we go on a picnic next week? (suggestion)

B. Do as directed.
i. She went out.
She would look for a doctor. (Combine the sentences)
ii. Who wrote this poem? (passive)
iii. Please give me a pen.(passive)
iv. Children are fond……(of/by) sweets.
v. Mr. Prasad is …..to me. (senior/elder)
vi. If you drove carefully, you ……(save) others life. (correct verb form)
vii. Will you please talk more……..(quiet/quietly)
viii. She dances very ……..(bad/badly)
ix. Animal don’t kill ……….(until/ although/ because) they are hungry.
x. He is a/an M.P.

Q.3 Answer in detail.

a. Explain the technical writing process. Discuss all the prescribed steps.
b. What is Minutes of Meeting? Write all the contents of minutes.
c. What is an E-mail writing? Discuss its advantages (Pros) and disadvantages (Cons) in the
modern world.
d. What is memorandum writing? Write a memo, assuming for the situation of ‘an increment in
the salary of the employees of SAIL India Ltd., Bangalore’.
e.Write a job application (with CV) assuming yourself as Deepak Mahajan, of 23, Kaveri Path,
Jaipur, Rajasthan, applying for the post of Junior Engineer at JVVNL. Bijali Bhavan, Jaipur,
Rajasthan, in reference to the advertisement in the Rajasthan Patrika, on 23 April, 2019.
f. Write a few types of official notes/ written communication, writing in detail about each.
g. what is technical discourse? Elaborate the various forms of discourse.
h. What is resume writing? Mention the different types of resumes.
i. What is resume writing? What are the different contents of a fresher resume?
j. What is E-mail writing? Write Some Tips for Effective Email writing.
k. What is Minutes of Meeting? Write the three types of minutes you have read.
l. What is Minutes of Meeting? How we Take Meeting Notes?

Unit-4
Q.1 Answer in short.
a. What is a report writing?
b. What is the purpose of technical Research/Article?
c. What is the use of writing a report?
d. What do you understand by a Technical project proposal?
Q.2 Answer in detail.
a. Discuss the characteristics of writing an effective report. Discuss its types and importance.
b. Write a report to your college head illustrating about the summer training program you had
made this summer.
c. Explain a ‘Technical Project Proposal’. Write its types and a prescribed format to lay it out.
d. What are the characteristics of an effective project proposal?
e. What does a research article mean for? Write the strategy/ structure for writing an article.