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General page layout and typography choices
Front and back covers
Endpapers
Front matter
- Half title or Bastard title
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Edition notice
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Dedication
- Prologue
Body matter, which may include:
- Chapters
- Parts
Back matter
- Epilogue
- Extro/Outro
- Afterword
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix/Addendum
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Colophon

In an essay, article, or book, an introduction (also known as a prolegomenon) is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This is generally followed by the body and conclusion.

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