Wednesday, April 17, 2013

External Text Features, Alphabetically




Appendix:  supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. (dictionary.com)
ap·pen·dix
əˈpendiks/
noun.
  1. 2.
    a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document.
    synonyms:supplement, addendum, postscript, codicil

A bibliography is a list of the sources the author used while preparing the book, article,  essay, or other text. 







Illustration with caption


Charts and Graphs


Charts Are Persuasive

Researchers compared the share of people persuaded by a verbal description of a drug trial with the share of those persuaded when a chart adding no new information was  included.

Proportion of people who were persuaded by the information
Read verbal description only
Also saw a chart
68%
97%
Source: “Blinded With Science: Trivial Graphs and Formulas Increase Ad Persuasiveness and Belief in Product Efficacy” by Aner Tal and Brian Wansink






This could be called a DIAGRAM:  A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.




Footnotes  
Footnotes are notes found at the "foot"  of a page.  You will see a number up in the text, and the same number will be found at the beginning of the note that explains for provides more information about that place in the text. 

By the way, 


What is font?  A font is a set of type of one particular face and size.
This is Arial font.     
This is Chalkduster font.
This is Desdemona font.

This is Times Font.


glossary -- 1.  a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanyingdefinitions.   2.  such a list at the back of a book, explaining or defining difficult or unusualwords and expressions used in the text. -- dictionary.com

Graph

headings -- indicate a main division, as of a  book, lecture, speech, essay, etc. -- http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/heading
subheadings --   Subheadings are titles that divide part of a piece of writing into shorter sections. -- http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/sub-heading
headings -- indicate a main division, as of a  book, lecture, speech, essay, etc. -- http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/heading
subheadings --   Subheadings are titles that divide part of a piece of writing into shorter sections. -- http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/sub-heading

Illustrations (Images)  can be photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.  
They are often accompanied by captions.  
A caption is a brief description accompanying an illustration. 

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  • Highlighting 

    • The index is found at the back of the book.  It is an alphabetized list of topics found in the book, with page numbers to indicate where in the book you would find those topics. 


  • Sidebars or Text Boxes

  • A "sidebar" or text box can be at the side of the page, at the top,  at the bottom, or somewhere in between.  These add supplementary information on the same page as the main text. 

  • "Sidebars" or Text Boxes can contain text, pictures, charts, and other  external text features.
    How many external text features can you find on this one page?  



    • The table of contents is found toward the beginning of the book, and it lists, in order, what you will find in the book.  Topics or titles are accompanied by the page numbers where you will find them. 





    • This could be identified as a table, a glossary, and most likely as an appendix at the back of the book. 




Table



  • Table of Contents 

  • Title  (I just had to add this!)


  • Typographical Text Features that use changes in font: 
    These are often used to make certain words or other parts of the text stand out, saying "Pay attention to this!"  

     Another way font differences are used is to help you know when something is different from the rest of the text.   For instance,  if a caption is close to the main text, it may be in italics or a different sort, size, or color of font to let you know it isn't just part of the main body of text. 

       Italics

    Bolding  

    Different colors of text 


    Different fonts are sometimes used.

    Different sizes of text 



F.Y.I.
This is regular text.
This is italics.
This is bolded.

Definitions for Text Features

External Text Features
Appendix:  supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. (dictionary.com); a section or table of additional matter at the end of a book or document.
Synonyms: supplement, addendum, postscript, codicil

A bibliography is a list of the sources the author used while preparing the book, article,  essay, or other text.  It may also be called Works Cited or Sources.

A caption is a small text found near a picture or other illustration that gives the reader important information about the picture.

DIAGRAM:  A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.

Footnotes are notes found at the "foot" of a page.  You will see a number up in the text, and the same number will be found at the beginning of the note that explains for provides more information about that place in the text. 

A font is a set of type of one particular face and size.  For example, Chalkduster, Comic Sans MC, Calibri, Lucinda Handwriting.

glossary -- 1. a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.   2.  such a list at the back of a book, explaining or defining difficult or unusual words and expressions used in the text. -- dictionary.com

Guide Questions may be found at the beginning or end of a chapter or a book.  Guide questions help guide you to important information in the text, and may also ask you to think more deeply about your reading.

headings -- indicate a main division, as of a  book, lecture, speech, essay, etc.  http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/heading
subheadings --   Subheadings are titles that divide part of a piece of writing into shorter sections. They are usually in smaller print than the headings.
 -- http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/sub-heading

Illustrations (Images)  can be photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.  
They are often accompanied by captions.  

The index is found at the back of the book.  It is an alphabetized list of topics found in the book, with page numbers to indicate where in the book you would find those topics. 

A "sidebar" or text box can be at the side of the page, at the top,  at the bottom, or somewhere in between.  These add supplementary information on the same page as the main text.  The information is usually inside a box or colored area separate from the main text.

The table of contents is found toward the beginning of the book, and it lists, in order, what you will find in the book.  Topics or titles are accompanied by the page numbers where you will find them. 

A timeline presents information in chronological order, often as a list or in the form of a  chart.

F.Y.I.
This is regular text.       This is italics.       This is bolded.


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