GET 10% DISCOUNT* ON ASLIB's Abstracting and Summarizing Electronic Documents training course on 24th September if you book before Tuesday 10th September.
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In Brief
Abstracting and summarising skills are a staple of the effective information professional's armoury - but assimilating and reproducing screen-based content introduces a whole range of new reading and writing issues that don't apply to printed material.
Combining presentation, practical work and group feedback, this course will help participants understand and apply the special principles associated with summarising electronic content and will equip them to tackle the challenges this presents with confidence.
Course highlights:
The programme will cover:
Exploiting web signposting conventions to help you find the material you need
Why some web or intranet pages are easy to read and some aren't
Website navigation aids - Home Page, Navigation Bars, Site Maps, Breadcrumbs, Links, Find
Dealing with unhelpful screen lay-out - exploiting Acrobat reader tools
Selection and presentation - eliminating irrelevant material, writing plain English
Strategic reading - finding material buried in electronic text
Why you should attend:
This course is for:
Anyone who needs to summarise material presented electronically - in a browser or electronic reader
Anyone who needs to abstract or describe the content of a web page or site, quickly and accurately
Anyone looking for to effective reading, writing and navigation techniques to enable them to tackle any website, page or PDF document
On completing the course, you will be able to:
Apply basic abstracting and summarising strategies and techniques to screen-based content
Understand web accessibility guidelines and how to tackle non-compliant content
Make use of web signposting conventions to navigate round a site
Avoid the pitfalls associated with summarising unhelpfully laid out HTML pages or PDF documents
Course Director: Tim Buckley Owen
ASLIB Members: £260 plus VAT
Non-members: £325 plus VAT
For more information visit http://www.aslib.com/training/courses/course.htm?eventid=75
If you would like to book on this course please complete the booking form http://www.aslib.com/downloads/ASLIB%20Training%20%20Booking%20Form.pdf and return to Sue Hill.
Sue Hill
ASLIB Customer Operations and Marketing Executive
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Tel: +44 (0) 1274 777700 Ext 5621
Web: http://www.aslib.com/training
We offer public courses and workshops, as well as on-site and distance programmes.
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