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ABSTRACTING WITH CONFIDENCE: WRITING SUMMARIES ACCURATELY, STYLISHLY AND FAST 27 September, London 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. Within the library and information profession, abstracting and summarising techniques are essential for current awareness services, enquiry answering and desk research, as well as for preparing briefings and writing reports. BENEFITS OF ATTENDING This workshop reassures participants that abstracting is a learnable skill, and shows how we can use our ordinary reading and writing skills more efficiently to improve our abstracting technique. BY THE END OF THE EVENT PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE: · learned how to scan documents rapidly and identify their key content · developed strategies for summarizing or describing that content · identified the different abstract types and decided when to use which kind · experienced the different techniques needed to scan and summarise news stories, articles, reports, textbooks and informal documents · practised writing to a house style, to word length and to deadline WHO SHOULD ATTEND? · information staff who need to summarise documents regularly for current awareness or database creation · enquiry staff who produce written answers to enquiries or carry out extended desk research · managers who need to assimilate documents rapidly and review them in reports WORKSHOP LEADER: TIM BUCKLEY OWEN Tim has more than 25 years' experience in abstracting, report writing, editing and journalism. At the London Research Centre, he managed a team that produced hundreds of abstracts every month for two databases and 10 current awareness bulletins. Tim is an independent information consultant and a member of CILIP. PROGRAMME 9.15 Registration and coffee 9.45 Welcome and introduction 10.00 Abstracting is a learnable skill Practical: Abstracting in daily life 10.45 Reading strategically Practical: Making sense of a technical article 11:15 Coffee 11:30 What should our abstracts achieve? Abstract form and content 12:00 What to include - what to leave out Practical: Shortening a news story 12:30 Gathering material for our abstract - using signposting Practical: Summarising a report 1:15 Lunch 2:00 Scanning documents that have little signposting - rapid reading techniques Practical: Describing a book's content 2:45 Tackling documents that offer few clues - further rapid reading ideas Practical: Exhuming bad news 3:15 Tea 3:30 Making our abstracts stylish Practical: Writing an abstract that is accurate, comprehensive, stylish and fast. 4:15 Final comments and questions 4:30 Close FEE: CILIP personal members: £250 plus VAT (£43.75) £293.75 CILIP institutional members: £300 plus VAT (£52.50) £352.50 Non members: £350 plus VAT (£61.25) £411.25 PLACES ARE LIMITED TO: 12 HOW TO BOOK: TO MAKE A CONFIRMED BOOKING: Please print out and complete the booking form below and return it by fax to the Training & Development Department on 020 7255 0561, or post to: Training & Development, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE TO PROVISIONALLY BOOK A PLACE: To make a provisional booking simply telephone us on 020 7255 0560, textphone 020 7255 0505, email [log in to unmask] or visit this workshop's web page at http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2006/persdev/abstracting.htm (Provisional bookings will be held for three weeks. 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