Proposed Front Matter for MAPW Capstone Projects
(Based on Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed.)
In standard publishing parlance, the front matter is everything that precedes the text, which begins on page 1. Every page must have a number based on a consecutive sequence, but everything in the front matter is numbered in lower-case Roman numerals, and those numbers appear only on the verso or overleaf or left-hand page. Title pages, heading pages, pages with text centered on them, also are not marked with page numbers.
This is the sequence of front matter, all of which begins on an unnumbered recto (right-hand page); what is in brackets is understood but not stated:
[Title page (see exhibit D)]
[Certificate of approval, signed]
[Dedication (optional and on its own unnumbered page)]
Epigraph (optional and on its own unnumbered page)
Acknowledgments (optional and on its own unnumbered page)
Foreword (always written by someone other than the author and optional and on its own unnumbered page)
Preface (always written by the author and optional and on its own unnumbered page)
[Table of] Contents (not "Table of," which is what it is but not labeled as such. Its first page is unnumbered; it only includes items that follow it, not what precedes it). The contents must list every item that follows, every item which begins a new unit (whether part, section, chapter, or interchapter), every item which begins on a new, unnumbered recto. That is, the contents list is made up of separate headings or titles for each part and chapter and intertext or interchapter by title or head and the appropriate beginning page number And every item in the contents must match perfectly word-for-word the text titles that follow. The contents page provides the page number for the first recto for each unit it lists, without the word "page" preceding it.
[List of] Figures or Photographs or Illustrations, as appropriate (optional and on its own unnumbered page)
[List of] Tables (optional and on its own unnumbered page)
Introductory Essay [this is approximately 10 pages long and introduces the reader to the contents of the project that follows, reflects on their relation to the MAPW course work, and makes an argument about some aspect of professional writing. Students will also write intertexts or interchapters that will reinforce the thread and progress of the argument that holds the project together.]
[Text]
Appendices (optional, and each begins on its own unnumbered page)
Glossary (optional and begins on its own unnumbered page)
Works Cited (optional and begins on its own unnumbered page)
Resume or Curriculum Vitae or Biography (optional and begins on its own unnumbered page)
[Sample Contents Page; remember that required signed certificate of approval and optional dedication, epigraph, acknowledgment, foreword, and preface precede this page and so are not listed on it]
Contents
List of Photographs xiii
Introductory Essay 1
Part I Portrait of the Artist as a Young Writer 7
Chapter 1 The Story of My Life 9
Chapter 2 Around the World in Six Semesters 13
Part II Gone With the Breeze 23
Chapter 3 The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 37
Chapter 4 The Burning of Atlanta 49
Part III The Great American Novel 55
Works Cited 197
Curriculum Vitae 211
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