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  2. Introduction (writing) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the American Journal of Physics (AJP) specifically advises authors that an introduction “need not summarize”. Instead, the introduction can provide “background and context”, and/or indicate “purpose and importance”, and/or describe the raison d'être for an article (i.e. motivation) in a way that is “informative and ...

  3. Preface - Wikipedia

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    Preface to the poem Milton by William Blake. A preface (/ ˈ p r ɛ f ə s /) or proem (/ ˈ p r oʊ ɛ m /) is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword [contradictory] and precedes an author's preface.

  4. Book - Wikipedia

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    A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover; they were preceded by several earlier formats, including the scroll and the tablet.

  5. Body text - Wikipedia

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    Body text or body copy is the text forming the main content of a book, magazine, web page, or any other printed or digital work. This is as a contrast to both additional components such as headings, images, charts, footnotes etc. on each page, and also the pages of front matter that form the introduction to a book.

  6. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Chapbook – an early type of cheap popular literature printed in early modern Europe in booklet format; Tract – booklets used for religious and political purposes; Boxed Set – a compilation of books packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit; Braille book – a book that is traditionally written with embossed paper for the blind or ...

  7. Epigraph (literature) - Wikipedia

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    An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.

  8. How to Read a Book - Wikipedia

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    How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.

  9. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    For example, some U.S. booksellers arrange for drop-shipments in foreign countries which are then re-shipped to America where the books can be sold online at used prices (for a "new" unopened book). The authors often getting half-royalties instead of full-royalties, minus the charges for returned books from bookstores.