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Three Indexes to the Exercises
T. R. Girill
STC Fellow
trg@llnl.gov
Besides looking up the EBSTC high-school instruction-writing and description-writing exercises by name, you can also use any of these three indexes to find such exercises by topic. Indexed topics include:
- thematic task addressed (alphabetical order),
- California reading standards supported (grade order), and
- California writing standards supported (grade order).
Most technical writing exercises shared here easily address several tasks or content standards at once, and you can easily adapt them to address more (many have possible extensions spelled out at the end of the annotated version). So view each index here as a starting point, not a rigid categorization of what any exercise covers. Start with the content standard (reading or writing) or the thematic task that you primarly want to address and then explore the listed exercise(s) as a relevant place to begin (many offer internal cross references, comparisons with other exercises, or extended usage suggestions).
In all three indexes, the letter "I" indicates an instruction-writing exercise and "D" indicates a description-writing exercise (each reference is also a link to the corresponding annotated version online).
| Index by Thematic Tasks | |
| Special Thematic Task: | Most Relevant Exercises: |
| Art: good text/art combinations analyzed | I1, I3, I8, D1, D2 |
| Art: flawed text/art combinations analyzed | I2, I4, I5, I9 |
| Art: evaluating technical illustrations | I8, I9, I10, I14, D1, D2, D3, D5 |
| Comparisons and contrasts in text | D3, D4, D5 |
| Drafting (with self-editing) | I14, D0 |
| Iterative text revision | I4, I7, I11, I13, I15, D3, D5 |
| Logical problems | I6, I7, I9, I11, I15 |
| Online searching | I15 |
| Reconstruction from fragments (coarse, paragraphs) | I15, D3 |
| Reconstruction from fragments (fine, sentences) | D4, D5 |
| Risk management (warnings) | I3, I10, I11, I15, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5 |
| Word count | I4, I5, I13, D3 |
| Index by Reading Standards | |
| California Reading Standard: | Most Relevant Exercises: |
| Grade 3: read aloud fluently | I15, D3, D4, D5 |
| Grade 5: understand how text features...make information accessible and usable | I1, I3, I4, I8, I9, I10, I13, I14, D1, D2, D4 |
| Grade 6: follow multi-step instructions | all I |
| Grade 7: analyze text that uses the cause-and-effect organizational pattern | I6, I7, I11, I2, I14, D1, D2 |
| Grade 8: understand and explain the use of a complex mechanical device | D3, D5 |
| Grades 9 and 10: critique the logic of functional documents...in anticipation of possible reader misunderstandings | I4, I5, I6, I7, I11, I13, I15, D3, D4, D5 |
| Grades 9 and 10: analyze structure and format of functional workplace documents, including graphics...explain how authors use the features to achieve their purposes | I4, I5, I8, I9, I10, I13, I14 |
| Grades 11 and 12: analyze both the features and the rhetorical devices of...public documents | I15, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5 |
| Index by Writing Standards | |
| California Writing Standard: | Most Relevant Exercises: |
| Grade 5: edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus | I4, I5, D5 |
| Grade 5: write research reports...develop the topic...with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations | D0 |
| Grade 6: create multiple-paragraph expository compositions [using]...a variety of...organizational patterns | I13 |
| Grade 6: Compose documents with appropriate formatting by using ...principles of design | I3 |
| Grade 7: revise writing to improve organization and word choice by checking the logic of the ideas and the precision of the vocabulary | I6, I7, I11, I15, D3, D5 |
| Grade 8: establish coherence within and among paragraphs | I14, I15, D3, D4, D5 |
| Grade 8: write technical documents...identify the sequence of activities needed to design a system, operate a tool, or explain the bylaws of an organization...use formatting techniques to aid comprehension | I1, I2, I4, I5, I6, I7, I10, I11, I13, I14, D1, D2 |
| Grades 9 and 10: make distinctions between the relative value and significance of specific data, facts, and ideas | I3, I4, I14, D0 |
| Grades 9 and 10: write technical documents...report information and convey ideas logically and correctly...include scenarios, definitions, and examples to aid comprehension...anticipate reader problems | I14, I15, D2, D3, D4, D5 |
| Grades 11 and 12: enhance meaning by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy [and] the incorporation of visual aids | I8, I9, I10, I14, D4 |
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