* where other processors might require information from. In a
* sense, these import indices form the dual of the ghost
* indices. This information is gathered once when constructing the
- * partitioner, which obviates subsequent global communcation steps
+ * partitioner, which obviates subsequent global communication steps
* when exchanging data.
*
- * The partitioner includes a mechanism for converting global to
- * local and local to global indices. The storage convention for the
- * partitioner is as follows. The local range is associated with
+ * The partitioner includes a mechanism for converting global to local and
+ * local to global indices. Internally, this class stores vector elements
+ * using the convention as follows: The local range is associated with
* local indices [0,@p local_size), and ghost indices are stored
* consecutively in [@p local_size, @p local_size + @p
* n_ghost_indices). The ghost indices are sorted according to their