See also information books, library skills. non-fiction reading and writing ‘Retrieval devices’ are those parts of a text, the contents page and index, which help direct the reader to the exact information he or she needs. They also...

These are the headings and sub-headings which sometimes organise an information book. For more about structural guiders and other global aspects of non-fiction, see Bobbie Neate, 1992. Neate, Bobbie (1992) Finding Out About Finding Out London: Hodder...

An index is a list of words and associated pointers to where those words can be found in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the words (or phrases) are concepts selected by a person and the pointers are page numbers. In a library catalog...