In your comments below, how is your text set up?
Bulleting, listing or outlining is most helpful so that readers can tell at a glance what the features of non-fiction organization are.
- Include parts like preface, introduction, table of contents, acknowledgements, chapters, endnotes, index, etc.
- Starting at the title page, list all the sections of your book.
- If chapters are numbered, then #1-whatever is fine.
- If chapters are titled, please list them.
The purpose of having everyone post the structure of his or her text is to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the way non-fiction texts are organized.
1. Dedication page
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3. Author's Note
4. Foreward by Augusten Burroughs
5. Prologue
6. Chapters 1-29
7. Epilogue
8. Postscript
9. Acknowledgments
10.Reading and Resources
In my book, there is the title page, then a page where he dedicates the book to his wife and kids, then the contents page where its lists the chapter and they include;
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Prologue
1. Good Hands
2. Mother
3. Wake Forest
4. Turning Point
5. Winnie
6. The Tour
7. Augusta
8. D. D. E.
9. Cherry Hills
10. The Claret Jug
11. Missing Link
12. The Handshake
13. The Left Seat
14. Bay Hill
15. Hat's Off
Career Summary
Index
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
The Patriot Way 24
Chapter 3
The Culture of Winners 49
Chapter 4
Losing the Core 82
Chapter 5
The Desert 94
Chapter 6
The New Falcon Vernacular 138
Chapter 7
New England Departure, Kansas City Arrival 163
Chapter 8
A Tale of Three Cities 193
Chapter 9
Let's Make a Deal 214
Chapter 10
Shelf Life 237
Chapter 11
Three and Out 250
Chapter 12
The Mobile Dinner 268
Chapter 13
Chief Assembly 284
Chapter 14
Picking and Dealing 296
Chapter 15
War Room 308
Epilogue 329
Acknoledgments 335
1. Introduction
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-Chapter 1 "stages"
-Chapter 2 "therapy"
-Chapter 3 "big brother"
-Chapter 4 "mom"
-Chapter 5 "family portrait"
-Chapter 6 "portrait of a school
3. Part Two
-Chapter 7 "i dont put drugs in my body
-Chapter 8 "the jock"
4. Addendum "hot line"
5. Futher Reading
6. Where to Get Help
Preface 1
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2.Life in Skalbania 27
3.Miracle in Montreal 43
4.The Weak-Kneed Wimp Years 57
5.Garter Belts, Mickey Mouse and
the Stanley Cup 71
6.Yours Truly 83
7.All You Have to Do Is Be Shot
Out of a Cannon 99
8.Meet the Inmates 115
9.Back to the Future 131
10.How to Get Married Twice in
One Day 139
11.The Last Cold War 151
12.Crumbling Walls 163
13. We Swept Them in Five 163
14.The Day I Made "Transactions"171
15.The Peter Principale 177
16.Hockeywood 189
17.A Bloody Shame 197
18.It's Howe, Not How Many 219
19.M*A*S*H 4, Calgary 2 231
20.A Thank-You Note 239atistics 250
Index 253
1. Dedication page
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3. Author's Note
4. Foreward by Augusten Burroughs
5. Prologue
6. Chapter 1- A Little Misfit
7. Chapter 2- A Permanent Playmate
8. Chapter 3- Empathy
9. Chapter 4- A Trickster is Born
10.Chapter 5- I Find a Porsche
11.Chapter 6- The Nightmare Years
12.Chapter 7- Assembly Required
13.Chapter 8- The Dogs Begin to Fear Me
14.Chapter 9- I Drop out of High School
15.Chapter 10- Collecting the Trash
16.Chapter 11- The Flaming Washtub
17.Chapter 12- I'm in Prison with the Band
18.Chapter 13- The Big Time
19.Chapter 14- The First Smoking Guitar
20.Chapter 15- The Ferry to Detroit
21.Chapter 16- One with the Machine
22.Chapter 17- Rock and Roll All Night
23.Chapter 18- A Real Job
24.Chapter 19- A Visit from Management
25.Chapter 20- Logic Vs. Small Talk
26.Chapter 21- Being Young Executives
27.Chapter 22- Becoming Normal
28.Chapter 23- I Get a Bear Cub
29.Chapter 24- A Diagnosis at Forty
30.Chapter 25- Montagoonians
31.Chapter 26- Units One Through Three
32.Chapter 27- Married Life
33.Chapter 28- Winning at Basketball
34.Chapter 29- My Life as a Train
35. Epilogue
36. Postscript
37. Acknowledgments
38.Reading and Resources
My book first contains "Praise for Rebecca Skloot's The IMMORTAL LIFE of HENRIETTA LACKS". Which is where magazines, newspapers, and websites say how great the book is and what they liked.
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Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph
Deborah's Voice
Part one: Life
1. The Exam...1951
2. Clover...1920-1942
3. Diagnosis and Treatment...1951
4. The Birth of HeLa...1951
5. "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"...1951
6. "Lady's on the Phone"...1999
7. The Death and Life of Cell culture...1951
8. "A Miserable Specimen"...1951
9. Turner Station...1999
10. The Other Side of the Tracks...1999
11. "The Devil of Pain Itself"...1951
Part Two: Death
12. The Storm...1951
13. The HeLa Factory...1951-1953
14. Helen Lane...1953-1954
15. "Too Young to Remember"...1951-1965
16. "Spending Eternity in the Same Place"...1999
17. Illegal, Immortal, and Deplorable...1954-1966
18. "Strangest Hybrid"...1960-1966
19. "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"...1966-1973
20. The HeLa Bomb...1966
21. Night Doctors...2000
22. "The Fame She So Richly Deserves"...1970-1973
Part Three: Immortality
23. "It's Alive"...1973-1974
24. "Least They Can Do"...1975
25. "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"...1976-1988
26. Breach of Privacy...1980-1985
27. The Secret of Immortality...1984-1995
28. After London...1996-1999
29. A Village of Henriettas...2000
30. Zakariyya...2000
31. Hela, Goddess of Death...2000-2001
32. "All That's My Mother"...2001
33. The Hospital for the Negro Insane...2001
34. The Medical Records...2001
35. Soul Cleansing...2001
36. Heavenly Bodies...2001
37. "Nothing to Be Scared About"...2001
38. The Long Road to Clover...2009
Where They Are Now
About the Henrietta Lacks Foundation
Afterword
Cast of Characters
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Reading Group Guide
1. Praise For Until Tuesday (Page of reviews of the memoir)
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3. Dedication page
4. Table of Contents
-Acknowledgments
-Preamble "The First Look" 1
PART ONE
TUESDAY
-Chapter 1 "Motherly Love" 11
-Chapter 2 "Puppy Behind Bars" 23
-Chapter 3 "The Lost Boys" 37
PART TWO
LUIS
-Chapter 4 "Al-Waleed" 49
-Chapter 5 "An American Soldier" 64
-Chapter 6 "Anything but Stable" 76
-Chapter 7 "Hard Decisions" 85
-Chapter 8 "The Thought of Dogs" 96
PART THREE
TUESDAY AND LUIS
-Chaper 9 "The First Choice" 105
-Chapter 10 "Company" 111
-Chapter 11 "The Right Dog" 119
-Chapter 12 "The First Test" 129
-Chapter 13 "Thanksgiving" 137
-Chapter 14 "Smoked" 149
-Chapter 15 "Cats and Dogs" 158
-Chapter 16 "Hope and Change" 166
-Chapter 17 "The Back of the Bus" 172
-Chapter 18 "Tuesday's Handle" 183
-Chapter 19 "Tuesday Talks" 192
-Chapter 20 "Summer Days" 201
-Chapter 21 "Crash and Groom" 209
-Chapter 22 "The Little Things" 217
-Chapter 23 "For Veterans Everywhere" 225
-Chapter 24 "A Quiet Life" 237
5. Epilogue "Graduation Day" 247
6. Acknowledgments
7. Poem by Author "Split in Half"
Contents
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Chapter 1 (Iraq: The Cradle of Civilization)
Chapter 2 (India: Empire of the Spirit )
Chapter 3 (China: The Mandate of Heaven)
Chapter 4 (Egypt: The Habit of Civilization)
Chapter 5 (Central America: The Burden of Time)
Chapter 6 (The Barbarian West)
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Index
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ReplyDeleteMy book, "Half Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls starts off with a page that says that she also wrote "The Glass Castle". That's all that is on that page. The next page is a picture of her and then the next page is the title page. The next is the copyright and publishing information, then the dedication page. The next page is acknowledgements, and the next has a quote that says "It was the great north wind that made the Vikings. -Old Norwegian saying" The chapters are as follows:
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II- The Miraculous Staircase
III- Promises
IV- The Red Silk Shirt
V- Lambs
VI- Teacher Lady
VII- The Garden of Eden
VIII- Gumshoes
IX- The Flyboy
Following the chapters is an Epilogue titled "The Little Critter" about herself as a child, followed by the Author's Note and About the Author.
Each chapter page has a different picture from the author's grandmother's life.
1. Title Page
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3. Contents
4. Preface
5. Introduction
6. Opportunity
7. Responsibilty
8. Community
9. Conclusion
10. Acknowledgements
-title page
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-chapters 1-17 they don't have titles
-afterwords
Mine goes:
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- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Introduction
Chapters;
1. "Me, I'm from Michigan"
2. Spider and Son
3. Fairfax High
4. Under the Zero One Sun
5. Deep Kicking
6. The Red Hots
7. Groundhog Year
8. The Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
9. Refourming
10. Funky Monks
11. Warped
12. Over the Wall
13. Nothing
14. Welcome to Californication
15. A Moment of Clarity
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Chaper 1-Spring Training:Welcome to next year
Chapter 2-April/May:Who are these guys?
Chapter 3-June:The June Swoon
Chapter 4-July:Turn the page
Chapter 5-August:The hottest August on record
Chapter 6-September/October:Hangin' tough
Chapter 7-The ALDS:Somebody got-ta pay
Chapter 8-The ALCS:Beyond Thunderdome
Chapter 9-The World Series: The possible dream
Acknowledgments
Boston Red Sox 2004 Stats
Contents
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Chaper 1-Spring Training:Welcome to next year
Chapter 2-April/May:Who are these guys?
Chapter 3-June:The June Swoon
Chapter 4-July:Turn the page
Chapter 5-August:The hottest August on record
Chapter 6-September/October:Hangin' tough
Chapter 7-The ALDS:Somebody got-ta pay
Chapter 8-The ALCS:Beyond Thunderdome
Chapter 9-The World Series: The possible dream
Acknowledgments
Boston Red Sox 2004 Stats
Contents
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Chaper 1-Spring Training:Welcome to next year
Chapter 2-April/May:Who are these guys?
Chapter 3-June:The June Swoon
Chapter 4-July:Turn the page
Chapter 5-August:The hottest August on record
Chapter 6-September/October:Hangin' tough
Chapter 7-The ALDS:Somebody got-ta pay
Chapter 8-The ALCS:Beyond Thunderdome
Chapter 9-The World Series: The possible dream
Acknowledgments
Boston Red Sox 2004 Stats
Title Page
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Map of the Soldiers Path Through
Europe
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: We Wanted Those Wings
Camp Toccoa July-December 1942
Chapter 2: Stand Up and Hook Up
Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks
December 1942- September 1943
Chapter 3: Duties of the Latrine
Orderly, Aldbourne, September
1943- March 1944
Chapter 4: "Look Out Hitler Here
We Come!", Slapton Sands and
Uppottery, April 1- June 5 1944
Chapter 5: "Follow Me", Normandy,
June 6 1944
Chapter 6: "Move Out!", Carentan
July 7-12 1944
Chapter 7: Healing Wounds and
Scrubbed Missions, Aldbourne,
July 13- September 16 1944
Chapter 8: "Hell's Highway",
Holland, October 2- November 25
Chapter 9: The Island, Holland,
October 2- November 25 1944
Chapter 10: Resting, Recovering,
and Refitting, Mourmelon-le-
Grand, November 26- December 18
Chapter 11: "They Got Us
Surrounded, the Poor Bastards",
Bastogne, December 19-31 1944
Pictures
Chapter 12: The Breaking Point,
Bastogne, January 1-13 1945
Chapter 13: Atttack, Noville
January 14-17 1945
Chapter 14: The Patrol, Haguenau,
January 18-February 23 1945
Chapter 15: "The Best Feeling In
the World", Mourmelon, February
25- April 2 1945
Chapter 16: Getting to Know the
Enemy, Germany, April 2-30 1945
Chapter 17: Drinking Hitler's
Champagne, Berchtesgarden, May
1-8 1945
Chapter 18: The Soldier's Dream
Life, Austria, May 8-July 31
Chapter 19: Postwar Careers
1945-1991
Acknowledgements and Sources
Index
"Tuesday's with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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-The Curriculum
-The Syllabus
-The Student
-The Audiovisual
-The Orientation
-The Classroom
-Taking Attendance
-The First Tuesday: We Talk About the World
-The Second Tuesday: We Talk About Feeling Sorry For Yourself
-The Third Tuesday: We Talk About Regrets
-The Audiovisual, Part Two
-The Professor
-The Fourth Tuesday: We Talk About Death
-The Fifth Tuesday: We Talk About Family
-The Sixth Tuesday: We Talk About Emotions
-The Professor, Part Two
-The Seventh Tuesday: We Talk About the Fear of Aging
-The Eighth Tuesday: We Talk About Money
-The Ninth Tuesday: We Talk About How Life Goes On
-The Tenth Tuesday: We Talk About Marriage
-The Eleventh Tuesday: We Talk About Culture
-The Audiovisual, Part Three
-The Twelfth Tuesday: We Talk About Forgiveness
-The Thirteenth Tuesday: We Talk About the Perfect Day
-The Fourteenth Tuesday: We Say Good-Bye
-Graduation
-Conclusion
My wrists hurt after typing this.
Dedication Page
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Foreword: By Magic Johnson
Part 1:Where I Come From
Chapters 1-14
Part 2: The Career
Chapters 15-31
Part 3: Observations
The Three Point Shot
Red Auerbach
Walter, Howie, and Dave
Robert Parish
Cities and Arenas
Referees
Triple-Doubles
Free Throws
NBA Musings
The Playoffs
The Statue
The Fans
The "Best Players"
Rituals
Leadership
The Press
West Coast Trips
Part 4:Where I Stand
The fist few pages of my book, The Diary of Anne Frank, are pages of her diary that she wrote in her handwriting. Next is the title page and then the "foreword" section of the book. It gives background info that one might not have know about Anne Frank and what she went through. ALso it tells about her family and how her father decided to publish the diary. After the foreword, the diary begins on June 12, 1942. From there on all of the "chapters" are really dates of her diary entries, and there are a lot of them, sometimes 3 to a page, so I am not going to type all of the dates here.
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part one-the beginning
part two-transitioning
part three-marylin
pat four-stardom
part five-difficult times
part six-voices
part seven-slow death
part eight-the kennedys
part nine-sad endings
appendicies
acknowledgments
sources and other notes
marilyn monroe filmography
index
I know those of you with many titled chapters have cramps in your wrists and fingers, but I really appreciate seeing how your texts are organized. And I know the class community will learn through your efforts--so thank you!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be helpful if novelists titled their chapters? I like how non-fiction writers do prepare readers for each section with a title. Do you?
I noticed that sometimes the writers title sections also? Do you think grouping the chapters under sub-headings would be helpful, too?
Again, Thanks for your work--I do appreciate it.
I know those of you with many titled chapters have cramps in your wrists and fingers, but I really appreciate seeing how your texts are organized. And I know the class community will learn through your efforts--so thank you!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be helpful if novelists titled their chapters? I like how non-fiction writers do prepare readers for each section with a title. Do you?
I noticed that sometimes the writers title sections also? Do you think grouping the chapters under sub-headings would be helpful, too?
Again, Thanks for your work--I do appreciate it.
At the beginning of my book there are dedications from both the authors, then the next page is a quote from Jim Morrison. From here out it goes like this:
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Table of Contents
Part One - The Bow Is Drawn
(Chapters)
Part 2 - The Arrow Flies
(Chapters)
Part 3 - The Arrow Falls
(Chapters)
Epilog
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Discography
Videos
Books
Author Background
My book begins with a page "Praise for Aron Ralston and Between a Rock and a Hard Place" and then continues to the title page. There is another page saying "Passion: That which I suffer, allow, endure, is done to me." A section of "The Odyssey" is written by Homer on the next page. The next two pages contain a map of states such as Colorado, Arizona and Wyoming, all of which were where Ralston was on the day his story began. Then there is the "Prologue: Circulating With the Robbers Roosters"
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ReplyDelete2. Prologue: Aboard the Olympic
Part 1:
Frozen Music
Part 2:
An Awful Fight
Part 3:
In the White City
Part 4:
Cruelty Revealed
Epilogue:
The Last Crossing
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illistration Credits and
Index