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Following are some of the common contents of an appendix. As mentioned above, anything that adds to the knowledge and depth of the writeup, can be included in an appendix. Given below are categories of information that you can use in an appendix:
•Citations: Sometimes also known as a ‘reference’, a citation is a reference to some other piece of writing. Quotes and statements can also be used as a citation. In some cases, theories, definitions, formulas, ideologies, interpretations and intellectual works can be included too.
•Questionnaires and Surveys: If you have undertaken a specified questionnaire or survey to add credibility to your writing, then the summarized results of the surveys, illustrations and applied statistical formulas can also be included.
•News and Press Releases: News and press releases are often used for extensive research, and they can therefore be used in the appendix.
•Proofs: In case you have included some complex mathematics or have proved or interpreted some fact, then including the same in the appendix is important.
•Bibliography: While doing any research, you must have referred to several books. These books or some direct reference from a book can also be used to establish a fact within the writing.
•Index of Terms or Glossary: Throughout the writeup, you would be using a significant number of technical words in different manners and contexts. Complex and unknown words can be mentioned in the appendix, along with their dictionary meanings, to make the entire writeup even better.
Make it a point to systematically store your entire research, as all the aforementioned content which you would be including in the appendix is going be derived from your research material.

Over time, several factors came into play to compile a rulebook of sorts to describe what it took for a work of words to be classified as ‘minimal’. The most prominent among them are:
•The need of extensive interpretation by a reader of the work; you will often find places where the author intentionally leaves figurative blank spaces that you, the reader, will need to elaborate on yourself.
•An absence of adjectives in general; this relates to the above point, as the author will tend to leave some loose ends that the author expects the readers to understand (or interpret) themselves.
•The absence of a narrator; this will again weigh the readers sense of imagination.
•Paraphrasing to include human actions and a figurative language; minimalist authors will time and again prove (amusingly enough, with words) that actions speak louder than words. Rather than describing what goes on in a character’s mind before or during a scene, the author will directly take you there and show what the character is doing.
To put it blandly, minimalism in literature can be defined by some as putting words on auto-pilot, still allowing the passengers to admire the view that they themselves end up creating. Any details (or filling up of details) left by the writer is the responsibility of the reader. All this is done without the author withholding complete release of the tale to the readers, steering it towards the climax, thus giving it the readability and attraction needed.