diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 088c529b97..4e32f300c3 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
             It is important to understand, however, that the BSP layer can still make machine-specific 
             additions to recipes within the GUI environment layer without polluting the GUI layer itself 
             with those machine-specific changes. 
-            You can accomplish this through an appending recipe (a <filename>.bbappend</filename> file), 
-            which is described later in this section.
+            You can accomplish this through a recipe that is a BitBake append 
+            (<filename>.bbappend</filename>) file, which is described later in this section.
         </para>
 
         <para>