Abstracting and Summarising Quickly and Accurately

ASLIB - The Association for Information Management
London, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' A practical introduction to the key techniques used in abstracting and summarising documents of all kinds - news items, articles, books, reports and unpublished internal documents. The course includes:

What do we want our abstracts to achieve?
What to include in an abstract
Signposting - gathering material for the abstract
Writing an abstract with only limited resource material
Rapid reading techniques
Writing abstracts that are accurate, comprehensive, stylish and fast.
Why you should attend:
Information overload affects everyone, and there is an urgent need for people who can extract the key facts and opinions from documents rapidly and reproduce them accurately. Abstracting and summarising techniques are essential for current awareness services, enquiry answering and desk research, preparing briefings and writing reports. This course reassures participants that abstracting is a learnable skill which we all practise in our daily lives, and shows how we can use our ordinary reading and writing skills more efficiently to improve our abstracting technique. This course reassures participants that summarising - and the rapid reading that goes with it - are learnable skills, and shows how we can use our existing reading and writing skills more efficiently to improve our abstracting technique. Directed by Tim Buckley Owen, who has more than 20 years’ experience in abstracting, report writing and journalism, the course includes practical exercises based on a range of different document types.

On completing this course, you will be able to:
Scan documents rapidly
Identify their key content
Summarise or describe that content
Observe house style rules
Write to length and to deadline
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Phone:+44 (0) 20 7613 3031

School Address:

Aslib, The Association for Information Management
Holywell Centre
1 Phipp Street
London
EC2A 4PS
United Kingdom

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