| anecdote | a story about a single incident, event or experience |
| anthology | the collection of stories about one particular person (also known as an autobiography) |
| ATA Collection | the entire set of ATA stories |
| ATA Development Project | the project concerned with develolping the ATA framework, tools, technologies etc |
| ATA Hidden Collection | the ATA stories that are visible only to the ATA Research Project team |
| ATA Private Collection | the ATA stories that are visible only to logged-in contributors to Alexander Studies Online |
| ATA Project | the complete set of materials and projects that make up Alexander Technique in Autobiography |
| ATA Public Collection | the ATA stories that are visible on the world-wide-web to anyone |
| ATA Research Project | the project concerned with analysing the ATA Collection |
| autobiography | used interchangeably with anthology [see anthology] |
| narrator | the subject of the story ie the autobiographer/story-teller* |
| pupil story | a story that is largely concerned with someone's experience as an Alexander pupil |
| story | the basic unit of narrative in the ATA Collection |
| teacher story | a story that is largely concerned with someone's experience as an Alexander teacher |
| teacher training story | a story that is largely concerned with someone's experience in the Alexander teacher training environment |
*None of the available terms fit exactly: autobiographer sounds too formal and is associated with book publishing; story-teller is associated with fiction and often oral forms; author is also somewhat literary; narrator extends the scope to oral testimony (which is an option) and has fewer associations with the publishing industry.