What is it about?
Despite their changing role, abstracts remain highly beneficial to information professionals and researchers who work and publish in different fields. Therefore, this book summarizes the most important and up-to-date theory of abstracting, as well as giving advice and examples for the practice of writing different kinds of abstracts. It 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 non-linguistic knowledge and skills are also discussed with special attention.
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Perspectives
The discussion is based on an interdisciplinary approach, blending the methods of library and information science and linguistics.
Professor Tibor Koltay
Eszterházy Károly University
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This page is a summary of: Abstracts and Abstracting, January 2010, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1533/9781780630328.
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