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Q&A Glossary in my book

While writing my book, I have noticed that not a lot of people, that read my draft understand half of the things I'm talking about. So I added a glossary at the end that they could reference via a ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Aspen the Artist and Author‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:15:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/40400
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Aspen the Artist and Author‭ · 2019-12-08T10:15:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
While writing my book, I have noticed that not a lot of people, that read my draft understand half of the things I'm talking about. So I added a glossary at the end that they could reference via a link directly there.

I do tons of research for this book, many of the things I have included into it involve Latin words, scientific names, and many other complicated words that no normal person would know off the top of their head.

[![screenshot of glossary](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eluwd.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eluwd.png)

And I noticed, that as I add to the list, I retain more and more information about what I'm writing, so I don't have to keep looking the same things up all the time.

My question is: will people be more willing to read my work if I clarify things using this glossary?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-11-28T18:53:46Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 1