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 up-to-date 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 non-linguistic knowledge and skills are also discussed with special attention.

Author Biography

Dr Tibor Koltay is Professor, Head of Department and Course Director for Library and Information Science curricula at the Department of Information and Library Studies, Szent Istvan University, Faculty of Applied and Professional Arts, Jaszbereny. He also teaches at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary. He is an experienced abstractor who wrote over 200 abstracts and has been teaching abstracting since 1992.