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Grammar Glossary - J
• jargon • journal • journalist's questions
From LBH
In one sense, jargon is the specialized language of any group, such as doctors or
baseball players. In another sense, jargon is vague, pretentious, wordy, and
ultimately unclear writing such as that found in some academic, business, and
government publications. (See p. 584.)
From UseE
Jargon is the language used by people who work in a particular area or who have
a common interest; layers computer programmers, criminals etc. All have
specialised terms and expressions that they use, many of which may not be
comprehensible to the outsider. They may also use familiar words with different
meanings as well as abbreviations, acronyms etc.
From LBH
A personal record of observations, reactions, ideas, and other thoughts.
Besides providing a private place to think in writing, a journal is useful
for making notes about reading (pp. 120, 619–20, 791), discovering ideas
for essays (p. 19), and keeping track of research (pp. 619–20, 818, 836, 865).
From LBH
A set of questions useful for probing a topic to
discover ideas about it. (See p. 26.)
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