Abstracts and Abstracting: A Genre and Set of Skills for the TwentyFirst Century (Chandos Information Professional Series),Used
Abstracts and Abstracting: A Genre and Set of Skills for the TwentyFirst Century (Chandos Information Professional Series),Used

Abstracts and Abstracting: A Genre and Set of Skills for the TwentyFirst Century (Chandos Information Professional Series),Used

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Despite their changing role, abstracts remain useful in the digital world. Highly beneficial to information professionals and researchers who work and publish in different fields, this book summarizes the most important and uptodate theory of abstracting, as well as giving advice and examples for the practice of writing different kinds of abstracts. The book discusses the length, the functions and basic structure of abstracts, outlining a new approach to informative and indicative abstracts. The abstractors personality, their linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge and skills are also discussed with special attention. Despite the relatively large number of textbooks on the topic there is no uptodate book on abstracting in the English language In addition to providing a comprehensive coverage of the topic, the proposed book contains novel views especially on informative and indicative abstracts The discussion is based on an interdisciplinary approach, blending the methods of library and information science and linguistics

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