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I recently wrote a research proposal. I shared it with five professors. One concern is the use of terminology that is specific to genetics. One of my professors didn't have experience with genetics, and, I think, that limited her ability to understand what I wrote. I felt bad about this, and decided that I should have created a glossary for key terms. I see that there is a $$\LaTeX$$ package that, hopefully, makes it easy to create a glossary for a \LaTeX document.

In the future, I expect to use the glossaries package: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Glossary#Using_glossaries

It looks like the glossaries package also allows the definition of acronyms, which would be useful in my writing.

An alternative approach would be to use the format that Edward Tufte uses. This might be the better option, honestly.

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