Table Of Contents Research

The table of contents includes story titles with page numbers covering the whole publication. It's found in the front of the publication so it can be used to find any story or part of the magazine in the rest of the publication. Putting a small description of each story is optional but common in several magazines. It lets the reader know the location of the "always included" section. Most table of contents are more than one page for longer publications so that the reader can look for what article they want to read an easily be able to navigate to it. Shorter publications use a one page table of contents as all of their information is not a lot and can fit in a small amount of space. Many genres split up the two or more page table of contents with an advertisement. Columns aid in presenting the information clearly. Page numbers can be highlighted and or circled for as an easy to read format. The main article should still be bigger than the others even in the table of contents so it's easily recognizable. 

I am going to include most of the elements about the Table of Contents that I did research on. The only one that I’m not going to include is a description for each story because I don’t think it’ll benefit my cooking magazine. The titles will be descriptive enough to let the reader know what they are going to get into. 

This is an example of how the titles of the stories and page numbers that go along with it are displayed. It also has the main story bigger than the rest of them.

Resources:

Bear, Jacci Howard. “Design a Table of Contents or TOC for Books and Magazines.” Lifewire, Lifewire, 28 Feb. 2019, www.lifewire.com/table-of-contents-basics-1077580.

Davis, Jeff. “Teach Word Users the Six Benefits of a Table of Contents.” TechRepublic, www.techrepublic.com/article/teach-word-users-the-six-benefits-of-a-table-of-contents/.