I have finished main contents of body of Indian CS & IT Acad. Reform (Past) Activism book. It is publicly available (as in-progress draft version) on Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zvfn7zcjLMS2WpMpxiMMW7bdRiOCElKp (145 pages of A4 size). Now I have to do the Appendices and am having to figure out more about appendices. I thought I should share it with readers and also request any comments they might have on appendices.
What is an Appendix Page in a Book? https://www.diggypod.com/blog/appendix-page/ tells us: "An appendix page is a section located at the back of a book that includes any additional or supplementary information on the book’s topic, such as other books on the subject, references, citations, etc."
https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/appendices is in the context of research papers. But I think its info. is useful in the context of a book as well. It says, "An appendix contains supplementary material that is not an essential part of the text itself but which may be helpful in providing a more comprehensive understanding of the research problem or it is information that is too cumbersome to be included in the body of the paper. A separate appendix should be used for each distinct topic or set of data and always have a title descriptive of its contents."
And, yes, the plural of appendix in this context is appendices, and that word is used in above link. E.g. "Appendices are always supplementary to the research paper."
The stuff that I plan to include in the Appendices are as follows:
45. My (software) biodata (last updated March 2012):
https://ravisiyer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ravisiyerbiodata.pdf.
46. Ravi S. Iyer's Software Lab. Courses (home page), https://raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com/
47. My software industry work experience (Mar. 1984 to Aug. 2002):
https://ravisiyer.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/raviiyerindustryworkexperience.pdf.
48. Holistically Elite CS/IT Education vs Technically Elite CS/IT Education, January 2012,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/01/holistically-elite-csit-education-vs.html
49. The Without Warranty Wild West Software Industry, March 2013,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-without-warranty-wild-west-software.html
50. A Debate on Warranty for Software, March 2013,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-debate-on-warranty-for-software.html
51. List of some other eklavyasai blog posts including on “How to Teach Programming?”,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html#HowToTeach.
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But I think I will club my bio stuff (45 & 47) into one appendix, and also club the software warranty related posts (49 & 50) into another. So I will have 5 appendices which I will name as Appendix A through E and have a suitable title for each appendix. Note that all the stuff mentioned above, in my view, does not fit in the main body of the book. But I felt it is appropriate to share them in the book and so they go to the appendices.
Any comments from readers are welcome.
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Some sample appendices can be seen here: https://grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Thesis-Sample-Appendices-Straight-Numbering.pdf.
What is an Appendix Page in a Book? https://www.diggypod.com/blog/appendix-page/ tells us: "An appendix page is a section located at the back of a book that includes any additional or supplementary information on the book’s topic, such as other books on the subject, references, citations, etc."
https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/appendices is in the context of research papers. But I think its info. is useful in the context of a book as well. It says, "An appendix contains supplementary material that is not an essential part of the text itself but which may be helpful in providing a more comprehensive understanding of the research problem or it is information that is too cumbersome to be included in the body of the paper. A separate appendix should be used for each distinct topic or set of data and always have a title descriptive of its contents."
And, yes, the plural of appendix in this context is appendices, and that word is used in above link. E.g. "Appendices are always supplementary to the research paper."
The stuff that I plan to include in the Appendices are as follows:
45. My (software) biodata (last updated March 2012):
https://ravisiyer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ravisiyerbiodata.pdf.
46. Ravi S. Iyer's Software Lab. Courses (home page), https://raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com/
47. My software industry work experience (Mar. 1984 to Aug. 2002):
https://ravisiyer.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/raviiyerindustryworkexperience.pdf.
48. Holistically Elite CS/IT Education vs Technically Elite CS/IT Education, January 2012,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/01/holistically-elite-csit-education-vs.html
49. The Without Warranty Wild West Software Industry, March 2013,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-without-warranty-wild-west-software.html
50. A Debate on Warranty for Software, March 2013,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-debate-on-warranty-for-software.html
51. List of some other eklavyasai blog posts including on “How to Teach Programming?”,
http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html#HowToTeach.
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But I think I will club my bio stuff (45 & 47) into one appendix, and also club the software warranty related posts (49 & 50) into another. So I will have 5 appendices which I will name as Appendix A through E and have a suitable title for each appendix. Note that all the stuff mentioned above, in my view, does not fit in the main body of the book. But I felt it is appropriate to share them in the book and so they go to the appendices.
Any comments from readers are welcome.
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Some sample appendices can be seen here: https://grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Thesis-Sample-Appendices-Straight-Numbering.pdf.
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