Table of Contents

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I chose to write about the table of contents in my Intro into Communications class not because it looks nice, but its the first book I have noticed that has both a brief description for content and an in depth section; which I have never noticed in a textbook before. In the brief contents section, the information follows a hierarchy of the part title, then the chapter number and name, and lastly the part number as the least important bit of information. Hierarchy is created through changing the size and weight of the font and there isn’t much color difference with the text because only the “part one, part two,..” have their opacity decreased.

For the more in depth part of the contents, none of the words are colored either; only the change in the font weight is used for the text however this doesn’t mean that there is no color used. Instead color is used to call out the chapter number, name and page number to show this information as the most important. Then, each subsection of the chapter is is larger and heavier then the last part of information. All of the page numbers are same size and are the same size as the subsection titles because the author believed that this information was equally important to the readers. The remaining use of color for these pages are used as bullet points for more important bits of information.

Of course this book isn’t one I actively searched for, it’s one that I was assigned to read in class. Therefore, it’s designed to look like a normal learning textbook and I wouldn’t normally pick up this book and read it. I just believe that it makes the readers experience easier what looking for a specific section and that might appeal to the professor assigning the book if they notice this detail.