• § 1.1. Branch cycles and moduli
• § 1.2. Statement of results
• § 2.1. Principles about M_g: generic curves of genus g
• § 2.2. Degrees of simple covers

✺ Chap3-GenCurves: Chap. 3: Main Theorem; Group Theory and Exceptional Cases

• § 3.1. Proof of the Main Theorem
• § 3.2. Finiteness of |G_g(sol)∩ G_g(prim)| for g > 1
• § 3.3. Inspection of |G_g(sol)∩ G_g(prim)| for g = 1

✺ Chap4-GenCurves: Chap. 4: Details on Nielsen Classes in the Exceptional Cases

• § 4.1. Nielsen classes and Hurwitz monodromy action
• § 4.2. The structure constant lemma
• § 4.3. Cases (3.6) a), c) and d) of Theorem 3.3
• § 4.4. Cases (3.6) f) of Theorem 3.3

✺ Chap5-GenCurves: Chap. 5: Moduli dimension of Families of Covers

• § 5.1. Group Actions on Cohomology
• § 5.2. Moduli dimension of exceptional cases
• § 5.3. Generic curves and A_n, and a full Moduli formula

✺ Addendum-GenCurves: Bob Guralnick's 1989 suggestions for shortening proofs by eliminating § 3.6a and §3.6c and possibly removing pages 4.6 to 4.10. Addendum-GenCurves.pdf