diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
index 9546bedc52..d758872b8a 100644
--- a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
+++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
@@ -1393,8 +1393,9 @@
         <title>Working With Recipes</title>
 
         <para>
-            When building a recipe with <filename>devtool build</filename>, the
-            typical build progression is as follows:
+            When building a recipe using the
+            <filename>devtool build</filename> command, the typical build
+            progresses as follows:
             <orderedlist>
                 <listitem><para>
                     Fetch the source
@@ -1406,7 +1407,7 @@
                     Configure the source
                     </para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>
-                    Compiling the source
+                    Compile the source
                     </para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>
                     Install the build output
@@ -1417,10 +1418,13 @@
             </orderedlist>
             For recipes in the workspace, fetching and unpacking is disabled
             as the source tree has already been prepared and is persistent.
-            Each of these build steps is defined as a function, usually with a
-            "do_" prefix.
-            These functions are typically shell scripts but can instead be written
-            in Python.
+            Each of these build steps is defined as a function (task), usually
+            with a "do_" prefix (e.g.
+            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-fetch'><filename>do_fetch</filename></ulink>,
+            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-unpack'><filename>do_unpack</filename></ulink>,
+            and so forth).
+            These functions are typically shell scripts but can instead be
+            written in Python.
         </para>
 
         <para>
@@ -1428,12 +1432,13 @@
             recipe does not include complete instructions for building the
             software.
             Instead, common functionality is encapsulated in classes inherited
-            with the <filename>inherit</filename> directive, leaving the recipe
-            to describe just the things that are specific to the software to be
-            built.
-            A <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-classes-base'><filename>base</filename></ulink>
-            class exists that is implicitly inherited by all recipes and provides
-            the functionality that most typical recipes need.
+            with the <filename>inherit</filename> directive.
+            This technique leaves the recipe to describe just the things that
+            are specific to the software being built.
+            A
+            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-classes-base'><filename>base</filename></ulink>
+            class exists that is implicitly inherited by all recipes and
+            provides the functionality that most recipes typically need.
         </para>
 
         <para>