foreword

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A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.

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Definition: introduction to document
Antonyms: addendum, afterword, epilogue, postscript

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IN BRIEF: n. - A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.

Tutor's tip: He was "forward" (to advance) thinking enough to write a "foreword" (a preface) for his book on his career as a "froward" (stubbornly contrary) soccer "forward." (a player who plays in the front line)

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Not to be confused with the relative direction of "forward".

For other uses, see Foreword (disambiguation).

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Book design

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
- Prologue
Body matter, which may include:
- Chapters
- Parts
Back matter
- Epilogue
- Extro/Outro
- Afterword
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix/Addendum
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Errata
- Colophon

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature, before the introduction, and written by someone other than the author of the book. A preface, by contrast, is written by the author of the book, although sometimes the two terms are used interchangeably. A preface generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed; this is often followed by thanks and acknowledgments to people who were helpful to the author during the time of writing. Often, a foreword will tell of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the story or the writer of the story. A foreword to later editions of a work often explains in what respects that edition differs from previous ones.

If there is an author's preface as well, it follows the foreword. Unlike a preface, a foreword is always signed. Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an "Introduction" that may be paginated with Arabic numerals, rather than in the foreword. The word foreword was first used around the mid-1800s (originally used as a term in philology). It was possibly a translation of the German "Vorwort".

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