Technical Communication Glossary
This glossary contains terms related to the practice of technical communication. You can access terms by letter, or you can access terms by selected category.
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Selected Categories
Analysis - analysis, statistics, graphs, plots
Business - business (general), strategic planning, marketing, advertising, PR
Business Process - business process analysis, management, mapping, modeling
Certification - certification
Collaboration - general management, people management, leadership, mentoring, teams, collaboration, alternate dispute resolution, psychology, ethics, knowledge management
Finance/Law - contracts, law, finance
Instructional Design - instructional design
Multicultural - globalization, internationalization, localization, translation
Program/Project Management - program management, project management
Publishing - printing, publishing, typography, design
Quality - quality assurance, quality control, testing, standards, configuration management, information security
Research - research
Symbols - editing, proofreading, and English punctuation symbols
Technology - information technology, software, hardware, file types
Usability - usability, accessibility
Visual Design - graphics, charts, illustrations
Web - web
Writing/Editing - spelling, syntax, usage, punctuation, indexing, rhetoric, Latinisms, single sourcing, layout, content management