book A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, ...

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document A document is a writing, written, drawing, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of nonfiction, non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin ', which denotes ...

s, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. In

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break. Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the story-discourse distinction.

Section form and numbering

Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such as '' Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' or '' Internal Revenue Code section 183''. Section identifiers may have both uppercase and lowercase letters. The dotted- decimal section-numbering scheme commonly used in scientific and technical documents is defined by International Standard

ISO 2145 International standard ISO 2145 defines a typographic convention for the "numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents". It applies to any kind of document, including manuscripts, books, journal articles, and standards. Description ...

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Section form and numbering

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