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Merge terminology sections into one larger section #360

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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions competencies.md
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Expand Up @@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ Finally, @sec:appendix provides an example curriculum in @subsec:examplemaster,
a story-like description of a fictional RSE career progression in @subsec:examplecareer,
and a list of existing skills and certifications in related fields, in @subsec:existingframeworks.

## The Term Research Software Engineer
## Terminology

### The term Research Software Engineer

Research Software Engineering can be considered an interface discipline,
linking traditional Software Engineering with Research itself [@Lamprecht2024-giradar].
Expand All @@ -243,7 +245,7 @@ RSEs often need to deal with non-technical complexities that are characteristic
organisational, motivational, with respect to the size of projects, independence and heterogeneous goals of stakeholders, boundary conditions for funding and future funding, to name just a few.
Summarising, RSEs have skills and experience in three important areas: in the research area(s) their software is used in, in software engineering topics, as well as in interdisciplinary communication.

## Terminology
### Further definitions

Depending on the national research
environments and processes that readers are familiar with, the notion of the terms *software* and *research* might differ.
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