The World Book Encyclopedia 22. (töredék)

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About this volume
This volume consists of three basic parts:
A comprehensive index to World Book
More than 200 Reading and Study Guides
An instructional section, A Student Guide to Better Writing,
Speaking, and Research Skills
The index includes more than 150,000 entries that direct you to information in World Book. The index, together with World Book's extensive system of cross-references, its single alphabetical arrangement, and its other ease-of-use features, helps you find what you want to know quickly and easily. For general instructions on how to find a fact or an article in World Book, see the section "How to use WorldBook "\n Volume A. To learn how to use the index, see page 2 of this volume. The index itself begins on page 41.
The more than 200 Reading and Study Guides are designed to help you carry on independent study. These units include several Topics for study and lists of Books to read and Other sources of information. The Reading and Study Guides are functionally arranged in alphabetical order throughout the index portion of this volume. For a list of the Reading and Study Guides and instructions on how to use them, see the section beginning on page 4.
The section A Student Guide to Better Writing, Speaking, and Research Skills begins on page 6. It includes practical advice on such topics as improving your writing skills and preparing a short report, a book review, and a term paper; preparing, rehearsing, and delivering a speech; and using a library's resources and tapping other sources of information. Related information on conducting research follows on page 37. Included are: a Glossary oi terms and abbreviations encountered in research; a listing of general and specific Selected reference books; and information on two systems for arranging materials in a Wbrdiry—Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification.
This volume was prepared with the advice of the World Book AaV\so\y Board, other leading educators, practicing teachers, and skilled librarians.
How to use the index
The index is designed to help you find information in World Book. It tells you what articles have information on the subject you are looking up. To make it even easier for you to find what you seek, the index refers you to the specific volume and page where the information appears. If it sends you to a fairly long article, it tells you which section or sections of that article to look for.
The references to World Book appear under index headings that are printed in heavy type. These headings are arranged in alphabetical order. To find where World Book contains Information on your subject, simply look for an index heading that seems to match the subject you are seeking. For example, if you are looking for information on employment, look for the index heading
Employment
and you have found the references you want.
If the index heading you find is also the title of an article in World Book, the volume and page number are shown immediately after the heading. In the case of
Mythology M: 973
the index heading and article title are the same, and the article begins on page 973 of the M volume. Page numbers in the two C volumes are indicated with Cand Ci, and those in the two S volumes are Indicated with 5 and So. Page numbers for the volumes that contain more than one letter indicate the letter you seek, rather than the first letter of the volume. For example, the reference to "Yankee Doodle" sends you to Y: 554, page 554 of the W-X-Y-Z volume.
If the heading you find is not the title of an article, you will find the titles of World Book articles listed as index entries in light type under the heading:
Microbe
Microbiology M: 513
If the article referred to is divided into sections, you will find the appropriate subheadings in parentheses between the article title and the page number, pinpointing the place where the information may be found:
Aksum (ancient country] A: 255 with map
Africa (The influence of Christianity) A: 131 Ethiopia (History) E: 380
Sometimes you will find two page numbers after a title and subheading. They indicate that the section referred to covers more than one page and begins on the first page listed, but the information you seek appears on the second:
World Trade Center
New York City (Manhattan) N: 324-325
The index entries listed under an index heading nor-
mally appear in alphabetical order. But if one entry is much more important as a source of the information you seek, it appears first
Flavor
Taste T: 50 Spice So: 781
Some headings have only a few entries under them. Others, such as the Africa heading, have many. In many long lists, you will find the entries divided into smaller groups under such subjects as Agriculture, Art and architecture, and Education.
Identifiers, words or phrases in brackets, indicate which of several similar headings is the one you seek:
Core [botany] Core [electromagnetism] Core [geology] Core [nuclear reactor] CORE (organization) Core [sun]
Some identifiers are not complete in themselves, but the article titles that follow them complete the Identification.
Lincoln, William Wallace [son of]
Lincoln, Abraham (Lincoln s family) L: 315
Cross-references guide you in using the index. A see reference means that the information you seek appears under another heading, rather than the one you have chosen:
Feisal
See Faisal in this index
A see also reference indicates that another heading in the index has entries you may want to look up:
Accident
See also First aid in this index
Many cross-references send you to lists of Related articles:
See also the list of Related articles in the American literature article
You can thus find the long lists of articles in World Book, such as this list of American authors, but these lists do not take up space in the index. Vissza