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Subject:List of Tables and Figure From:Marilynne Smith <m -dot- smith182 -at- GENIE -dot- GEIS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 24 May 1995 03:54:00 UTC
Re: List of Tables and Figures is passe'
Readers like to see a list of tables and figures when these things summarize
the concepts and information for them. If you've done a good table or
figure, the reader can come back to that rather than re-read the chapter.
If you've listed them, you've done the reader a service.
And if you did a really good job of a table or figure, the reader might just
copy it and put it on the wall.
Always remember that some people understand pictures or statistics better
than text. It is for these people that you list the tables and figures.
Marilynne
m -dot- smith182 -at- genie -dot- geis -dot- com
