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| Table of Contents | It is like a menu in a restaurant. Located in the front of a book, it tells what page each chapter is located on. |
| Internal Conventions | Inside a nonfiction book, common ways of organizing information and making it more understandable or interesting. |
| Index | Located at the back of the book, it includes keywords (people, places, things) listed in alphabetical order. It lists all the page numbers where you can find information on your keyword (topic). |
| Keyword | Your topic (people, places, things). |
| Glossary | A mini dictionary at the back of the book. It gives the definition and sometimes the pronunciation for the words that are important to your topic. |
| Fonts and Effects | Titles of chapters and sections are sometimes bigger, darker, or a different color print. This draws our eyes and attention to different types of infromation, and signals you, the reader, that one topic has ended and another has begun. This helps you locate information that is useful to you and skip over the other. |
| Photographs and Graphics | Actual pictures or drawings that add to your reading, making it more interesting or understandable. They usually have a caption, which is some sort of explanation of what the picture is. |
| Author | Person who wrote the book and deserves credit for writing the information you are borrowing during your research. |
| Copyright Page | The page at the front of the book, usually right after the title page, that contains all the copyright information, such as title, author, publisher, and copyright/publication date. |
| Publication Date | Also called copyright date. It is the year the book/information was printed by a company. |
| Title Page | One of the first pages in the book and usually has the title, the author, and the publishing company on it. |
| Bibliography | A list of sources where you borrowed your information from, it protects you from plagiarism, which is when you steal words or ideas from someone else and don't give them credit. An author sometimes includes this in his/her book as well. |
