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A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, before the introduction
Introduction (essay)

The introduction is the most important part of a presentation. In an essay, Article , or book, an introduction is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing....
, and written by someone other than the author of the book. A preface
Preface

A preface is an introduction to a book written by the author of the book. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's 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.






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A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, before the introduction
Introduction (essay)

The introduction is the most important part of a presentation. In an essay, Article , or book, an introduction is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing....
, and written by someone other than the author of the book. A preface
Preface

A preface is an introduction to a book written by the author of the book. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's 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
Arabic numerals

The 'arabic numerals', or 'Hindu numerals' are the ten digits , which?along with Decimal Number System by which a sequence was read as a number?were originally defined by Indian mathematics, later modified and transferred to North African Islamic mathematics and transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages, whence they spread around the wo...
, rather than in the foreword. The word foreword was first used around the mid-1800s (originally used as a term in philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
). It was possibly a translation of the German "Vorwort".

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  • Afterword
    Afterword

    An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature. It generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed....