Reference
Glossary
47 terms, defined as this system uses them.
- accuracy
- Correspondence between the text, intended meaning, and supportable world or source state.
- action_path
- The sequence that takes a reader from understanding to the intended next action.
- active_voice
- A clause pattern in which the grammatical subject normally represents the actor or experiencer.
- addressable_space
- All rule-and-context combinations the system can evaluate, not necessarily generate.
- antecedent
- The expression to which a later pronoun or reference expression points.
- claim
- A proposition offered as true, probable, valuable, causal, definitional, predictive, or advisable.
- clause
- A unit organized around a predicate and its participants or circumstances.
- coherence
- The reader-recoverable conceptual and rhetorical unity of a text.
- cohesion
- Surface links such as reference, repetition, substitution, conjunction, and lexical relation.
- condition
- A circumstance that must hold for a rule, claim, or action to apply.
- context_default
- A rule that normally improves the target genre or audience but may yield to a documented reason.
- copy
- Persuasive writing designed to influence a defined decision or action.
- creative_option
- A controlled alternative offered for rhetorical effect rather than enforced.
- dependency
- A grammatical or content-system relation in which one element relies on another.
- discourse_relation
- The logical or rhetorical connection between propositions or passages.
- evidence
- Information used to support, test, bound, or challenge a claim.
- evidence_debt
- The support obligation created by a specific or consequential claim.
- genre
- A recurring communication form with characteristic reader expectations and moves.
- given_information
- Information the reader can already identify from context or shared knowledge.
- hard_constraint
- A requirement that must pass or block publication or action.
- heuristic
- A useful diagnostic or ranking rule that does not guarantee an outcome.
- information_type
- A structured topic such as concept, task, reference, or troubleshooting.
- LAKA
- A multidimensional diagnostic and transformation grid for decomposing, varying, selecting, routing, and reviewing interventions.
- layer
- The scale at which a writing object exists, from signal to content system.
- meaning
- The conceptual, relational, pragmatic, and emotional content a reader recovers.
- message_scent
- Continuity between a source message and the destination it leads to.
- minimal_pair
- Two examples differing in one controlled feature so its effect can be evaluated.
- nominalization
- A noun form that represents an action, process, or quality.
- outcome
- The intended change in what a reader knows, feels, decides, or does.
- paragraph_move
- The main rhetorical job performed by a paragraph.
- passive_voice
- A clause pattern that promotes the receiver or result while demoting or omitting the actor.
- plain_language
- Communication designed so intended readers can find, understand, and use what they need.
- predicate
- The central expression of an event, action, process, relation, or state.
- propagation
- The degree to which a local issue or change affects dependent units.
- rhetorical_situation
- The author, audience, purpose, text, and setting that constrain communication.
- rule_strength
- The enforcement class: hard constraint, context default, heuristic, or creative option.
- scope
- The amount of text or system affected by an issue or intervention.
- smallest_sufficient_intervention
- The least invasive change that fully resolves the diagnosed failure without creating a larger one.
- subtext
- Meaning carried indirectly beneath a character’s or speaker’s literal words.
- syntax
- The structural relations and order by which words and phrases form clauses and sentences.
- task_success
- The degree to which a reader completes the intended action correctly and safely.
- tone
- A local adaptation of voice to subject, reader state, and moment.
- truth_condition
- The conditions under which a proposition would be true or false.
- usability
- The degree to which readers can find, understand, and use the content.
- voice
- The stable relationship and character projected by a text.
- volumetric_grammar
- A grammar system that evaluates language across interacting linguistic, rhetorical, contextual, dynamic, and outcome dimensions.
- warrant
- The reasoning that connects evidence to a claim.