“What is the difference between \”Table of Contents\” and \”Contents\”?”

“What is your first science paper?” “I’m currently not sure how to name \”table of contents\”.” “The dictionary says that \”contents\” is more popular but I have been seen other students using only \”table of contents\”.” “What is more professionally?” “What do you like best?” “If you find any mistakes in my sentences just tell me.”

Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.
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"What does content mean?" "In Discover magazine, \"contents\". etc."

Answered on November 2, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 5, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 5, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 10, 2021.
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"What does content mean?" "In Discover magazine, \"contents\". etc."

Answered on November 11, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 11, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 14, 2021.
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"What does content mean?" "In Discover magazine, \"contents\". etc."

Answered on November 15, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 17, 2021.
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"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

Answered on November 17, 2021.
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