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 * GLOSSARY **

The following list of words and their definitions were compiled to provide more information about terms that may be unfamiliar to readers. Some of the terms are related to technical editing. Some terminology is used in web design and other areas of language.


 * cascading style sheet** (CSS) a set of HTML rules governing the appearance of a set of pages at a web site on the World Wide Web. CSS is used more commonly to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document.


 * extensible markup language** (XML) a language similar to HTML, but designed for transmitting complex data structures of any type, not just web pages. XML is a subset of SGML.


 * genre** a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.


 * hypertext markup language** (HTML) a set of codes that can be inserted into text files to indicate special typefaces, inserted images, and links to other hypertext documents.


 * hypertext transfer protocol** (HTTP) a standard method of publishing information as hypertext in HTML format on the internet.


 * idiom** an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as //no, it wasn't me//) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as //Monday week// for “the Monday a week after next Monday”)


 * linguistics** the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language.


 * manuscript** a typewritten or handwritten version of a book, an article, a document, or other work, especially the author's own copy, prepared and submitted for publication in print.


 * morphology** a study and description of word formation (as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in language.


 * nomenclature** a system or set of terms or symbols especially in a particular science, discipline, or art.


 * phonetics** the system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages.


 * phonology** the science of speech sounds including especially the history and theory of sound changes in a language or in two or more related languages.


 * pixel** one of the individual dots that make up a graphical image.


 * pragmatics** a branch of linguistics that is concerned with the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur.


 * publication** an issue of printed material offered for sale or distribution.


 * saturation** the intensity of a color.


 * semantics** the historical and psychological study and the classification of changes in the signification of words or forms viewed as factors in linguistic development.


 * standard generalized markup language** (SGML) a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document such as boldface and italics.


 * transmission control protocol/internet protocol** (TCP/IP) a standard format for transmitting data in packets from one computer to another. The two parts of TCP/IP are TCP, which deals with construction of data packets, and IP, which routes them from machine to machine.


 * WORKS CITED **

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Cascading Style Sheets.” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms.// 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms.// 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms//. 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Pixel.” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms.// 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Saturation.” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms.// 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006__.__

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms.// 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).” Def. //Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms//. 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Downing, Douglas, Michael Covington, and Melody Mauldin Covington. “Extensible Markup Language (XML).” Def. Dictionary of Computer and Internet Term//s//. 9th. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

“Genre.” Def. 1. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Idiom.” Def. 2. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Linguistics.” Def. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Manuscript." Def. 2. //The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.// 4th ed. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004. Dictionary.com. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.

“Morphology.” Def. 2a. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Nomenclature.” Def. 3a. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Phonetics.” Def. 1. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Phonology.” Def. 1. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

“Pragmatics.” Def. 2. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.

//“//Publication//.” Def. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.// 4th ed. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004. Dictionary.com. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.

“Semantics.” Def. 1a. //Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary//. 10th ed. 1999.