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Text Books are customary instructive manuals for any stream of study, written and published as per the demands of different educational organizations. Text books are normally found in printed forms but recently online books are also available.
Text books are of various types, depending upon the subject which it teaches and the institution where it is taught:
- Schools text books
- Text books for Colleges
- Text books at University levels
- Books of Controversies and Criticisms
- Professional examination books
- Text books for different entrance examinations
General Features of Text Books:
- Lots of information provided within small page spaces
- Apart from the main subject matters, the Contents displays all sections and sub-sections covered in the book for better understanding of things on the student's part
- Introduction to each chapter links it with the pervious one
- Question sets at the end of each chapter help the students to practice and revise the lessons learnt
- Extensive word vocabulary after every chapter teach meanings of new words
- Vivid graphic representation of pictures make reading fun and enjoyable
- Individual chapter summaries help the readers to recapitulate all that they had read as well as remember the chief ideas and topics covered inside the chapter
- From the different sections inside a chapter, a reader can make out the importance of the information found in the chapter
- The chapter and section questions draw the student's attention on all they are reading and build up a sound understanding of the topics
- The headings and sub-headings of each chapter indicate the topic discussed in the chapter
- Tables, diagrams, graphs, maps, and other graphic supports are common text book features, aiding better learning and understanding of the information found in different paragraphs
- Typographical aspects such as bold, italic and colored font types focus the student's attention to some new words and information in the content
- Marginal notes contain definitions and meanings of significant words, other important piece of information or explanation of anecdotes
- The picture titles relate the pictures with the text for superior understanding of the subject matters
- Other parts of a text book such as index, glossary, table of contents, appendix, etc. explain the different chapters in a more concise manner
Text book information aims at imparting knowledge to the students. The different text book features only make learning easy and fun on the student's part.
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