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(edition) by the significance. Thus, the first stage is the main elements (chapters),
                  the second - the units (chapters), the third - the paragraphs (paragraphs), etc. As the


                  rubrication is determined by the composition of the work, the editorial analysis of
                  the system of headings is closely related to the analysis of the composition.


                         The rubrication or its absence depends on a number of factors. First, on the
                  volume and structure of the text. Typically, small by volume texts are not broke


                  into the headings. Secondly, the type of publication and its purpose. For example,

                  delineation of rubric is used in reference and educational publications. Third, the

                  reader's  readiness,  the  culture  of  his  perception  of  the  text.  Fourthly,  the

                  complexity of the text.

                         Consequently,  the  editor  in  each  case  must  decide  the  issue  of  the

                  appropriateness  of  this,  and  not  another  heading.  There  are    two  tasks  in  the

                  analysis of heading before the editor:

                         1) to establish the optimal number of steps in the headings in the work;

                         2) determine the interdependence of the headings. If the number of steps in

                  the headings does not correspond to the nature of the work, then the editor resorted

                  to techniques for reducing the number of degrees of the headings or the methods of

                  increasing it.

                         In order to reduce the number of steps in the headings:

                         1) remove the unifying heading;

                         2) refuse from unifying headings, or from the headings subordinate to them.

                         Conversely, to increase the number of degrees of headings:

                         -  combine  a  number  of  headings  with  additional  headings  of  the  highest

                  degree;

                         - enter a new, lower order degree of the headings.

                         Following  the subordination of  the  headings to each other, the editor sets

                  out:

                         1) whether all the columns, which are united in one degree, are equivalent to

                  each other;
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