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The Organization of a Book
- Dedication
- Table of Contents: precedes, and therefore includes, all of the following:
- Foreword: statement by someone other than an author or an editor.
- Preface: author’s own statement about the work.
- Includes:
- Reasons for undertaking the work;
- Signed by the author only if some doubt about who wrote it;
- No date or city.
- Acknowledgements: usually included in a separate section following the preface.
- Introduction: material very relevant to the text; material that should be read before the rest of the book. An account of the historical background of the subject of the book, should not be relegated to a preface but should be printed as an introduction at the beginning of the text proper.
- Text
- Appendix: explanations and elaborations that are not essential parts of the text but are helpful to the reader seeking further clarification.
- Notes: follows the Appendix. One might use recurring heads to help identify the text pages to which the notes refer (i.e.—inclusive page numbers or just chapter numbers).
- Footnotes: series of symbols (on bottom of text pages); *, #, etc.
- Endnotes: material necessary for understanding the argument should be included in the text rather that placed in the note, where the incurious may miss it. These are substantive or discursive notes: consists of explanations of amplifications of the discussions in the text (see p. 515)
- Index
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