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A KWIC index is formed by sorting and aligning the words within an article title to allow each word (except the Stop Words ) in titles to be searchable alphabetically in the index. It was a useful indexing method for technical manuals before computerized Full Text Search became common. For example, the title statement of this article and the would appear as follows in a KWIC index. A KWIC index usually uses a wide layout to allow the display of maximum 'in context' information (not shown in the following example). The term permuted index is another name for a KWIC index, referring to the fact that it indexes all Cyclic Permutation s of the headings. Books composed of many short sections with their own descriptive headings, most notably collections of Manual Pages , often ended with a permuted index section, allowing the reader to easily find a section by any word from its heading. This practice is no longer common today. REFERENCES IN LITERATURE
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