Abstracting and Summarising

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introduction to key techniques in abstracting and summarizing documents; news items, articles, books, reports and unpublished internal documents, and shows participants how existing reading and writing skills can be used more effeciently to improve abstracting technique.