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-## Software engineering skills
+## Software/Technical skills
 
-RSEs are Research **Software Engineers** and, as such, posess software engineering skills
+RSEs are Research **Software Engineers** and, as such, possess software engineering skills
 that allow them to create and maintain complex and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) research software.
 
 ### Adapting to the software life-cycle (SWLC) <a name="SWLC"></a>