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• Document genre for the texts of public addresses or talks.

• A specimen is an individual instance that represents a class. A good specimen shows the character of the thing or material, useful for close study and permitting exact identification. For parts of anything presented as evidence of quality or composition, prefer "specimens."

• Discs, tapes, filaments, or other media on which sound has been recorded.

• Books containing brief musical compositions written or adapted for singing.

• Positive transparencies in mounts suitable for projection, usually 35mm film in a mount of 2 by 2 inches. An image on film or glass, usually positive, intended to be viewed by means of light passing through the image and base using a viewer or projector.

• Rough or summary art works; less finished than studies. Though sketches are often in the drawing medium, the term "drawings" in general implies more finished works than does "sketches."

• Books or pads of blank sheets used or intended for sketching, which are informal or rough drawings.

Use for: Autographs

• Persons' names written in their own hand.

• Relatively brief invented prose narratives.

• Music printed on unbound sheets of paper, as opposed to in book form.

• Use generally for conferences or courses of instruction for specialists. Use in an academic context for meetings of small groups of advanced students studying a subject in depth under a professor, each student doing some original research, and all exchanging results.

• Three-dimensional works of art in which images and forms are produced in relief, in intaglio, or in the round. The term refers particularly to art works created by carving or engraving a hard material, by molding or casting a malleable material (which usually then hardens), or by assembling parts to create a three-dimensional object. It is typically used to refer to large or medium-sized objects made of stone, wood, bronze, or another metal. Small objects are typically referred to as "carvings" or another appropriate term. "Sculpture" refers to works that represent tangible beings, objects, or groups of objects, or are abstract works that have defined edges and boundaries and can be measured. As three-dimensional works become more diffused in space or time, or less tangible, use appropriate specific terms, such as "mail art" or "environmental art."

• Written forms of stories prepared for motion picture productions, including description of characters, details of scenes and settings, dialogue, and stage directions.

• Blank books or albums designed so that a variety of items may be affixed to the pages, including photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia.

• Original and entire drafts or transcripts of musical compositions or arrangements. Typically having the parts of all the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another, so that they can be read at a glance.

• Lists of students' names and records of grades, disciplinary issues, and other information pertaining to the education of a student in a given school.

• Plans of procedure, showing the sequence of items or operations and the time allotted for each.

• Documents that serve as the evidence or record of cash and credit sales, including sales orders, tickets, slips, invoices, journals and summaries, and customers' ledgers.

• Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are us Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are used in geometry, drafting, drawing, carpentry, building, interior design, crafts, and other disciplines. For very long bars or strips of wood or metal having straight and true edges and used for a variety of purposes, including cutting or establishing the evenness of surfaces, use "straightedges."