PAPER QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
◉What are the features of academic writing? Answer: Purpose:
Communicating what you know about a topic, in a way that justifies
a high grade.
Your Knowledge of topics: Less than teacher who evaluates the
writing.
Audience: The teacher who request the assignment and reads it
from the beginning to end.
Criteria for evaluation: Depth, Logic, clarity, unity, supporting
evidence, and grammar.
Graphic elements: Sometimes used to explain and persuade.
◉What does academic writing requires of you to do? Answer: To
use words to display your learning to someone who knows more
about the subject than you do.
◉What are features for technical communication? Answer: Purpose:
Getting something done within an organization or helping a
customer, client, or colleague get something done.
, Your Knowledge of topics: Usually greater than that of the reader
Audience: Often several people with differing technical backgrounds
Criteria for evaluation: Clear simple organization of ideas and
supporting detail appropriate to the needs of busy readers
Graphic elements: Frequently used to explain existing conditions
and to present alternative courses of action.
◉How does technical communication help people? and how does it
differ from academic writing? Answer: it helps them make decisions
and perform tasks, academic writing only displays your knowledge.
◉How does technical communication responds to people? and how
does it differ from academic writing? Answer: They respond to need
of the workplace,
academic responds to an assignment created by a teacher.
◉How does technical communication created? and how does it
differ from academic writing? Answer: By an informal writer
conveying needed info both verbally and visually to an uninformed
reader, Academic created by a student as the learner for a teacher as
the source of knowledge.
◉Who reads technical communication? and how does it differ from
academic writing? Answer: read by many readers, academic aims to
satisfy only one person, the teacher.