1 / 25

Abstract and the A rt of Abstracting

Abstract and the A rt of Abstracting. What is an Abstract?. Abstract. signifies an abbreviated, accurate representation of a document without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract (ISO). Abstract.

emiko
Download Presentation

Abstract and the A rt of Abstracting

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Abstract and the Art of Abstracting

  2. What is an Abstract?

  3. Abstract signifies an abbreviated, accurate representation of a document without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract (ISO)

  4. Abstract “Brief but accurate representation of contents of a document” (Lancaster, 2003)

  5. Abstract “..concise representation in the style of the original document” (Rowley, 1992)

  6. Abstract “is a brief summary of a research article, …” (Wikipedia)

  7. Abstract “...Quite short text” (Guichat and Menou, 1983)

  8. 3 Typesofabstract 2 1

  9. Qualities of Abstract Purpose: The format must facilitate the skimming of a large number of abstracts

  10. www.VisualThesaurus.com

  11. Abstract from Lat. abstractus Abs+tractus

  12. Abs+tractus Abstract is the concept that is drawn away from a material object by our mind

  13. The Art of abstracting

  14. Abstract in Art

  15. (Pollok, 1948) (Picasso, 1943) (Mondrian, 1925) (Monet, 1948)

  16. Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 5 (Picasso, 1945)

  17. Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 5 (Picasso, 1945)

  18. Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 9 (Picasso, 1945)

  19. Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 12 (Picasso, 1945)

  20. Abstract is the concept that is drawn away from a material object by our mind Art of abstracting is prehistoric The cave of Lescaux, France 18.000 B.C.

  21. In Information science

  22. In Information science An Abstract is an, accurate representation of a information without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract An extract is created by drawing sentences from the document, whereas an abstract is a new piece of text A summary is a restatement of the document’s salient findings, whereas an abstract should be a self contained unit

  23. “...If the art of abstracting is the art of finding the concept of the document...”(Cremmins, 1983)And“...if Terms, letters, words, sentences are concepts...”(Khun, 1990)

  24. Is really possible to weight a Concept? 2) Is the process of abstraction in art and in writing comparable? 3) If an abstract is different from an extract or a summary, could the abstracting process be automatic?

  25. Could a computer system...1. read the document to be abstracted2. analyse the document3. apply a set of selection rules to produce the abstract4. format the resulting abstract and5. print the the abstract ...like humans do?

More Related