Abstracting and Summarising
Short course
In London
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Day
On completing the couse you will be able to: Scan documents rapidly and identify their key content. Summarize or describe that content. Observe house style rules. Write to length and deadline. Suitable for: Abstracting and summarizing techniques are essential for current awareness services, enquiry answering, desk research, preparing briefings and writing reports. This course is a practical introduction to key techniques in abstracting and summarizing documents; news items, articles, books, reports and unpublished internal documents, and shows participants how existing reading and writing skills can be used more effeciently to improve abstracting technique.
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Tim Buckley Owen
Course Director
Course programme
On completing this course you will be able to:
* Scan documents rapidly and identify their key content
* Summarize or describe that content
* Observe house style rules
* Write to length and deadline
Additional information
Course Fee: £300 plus VAT Aslib corporate members £375 plus VAT Non members
Abstracting and Summarising