A wider horizon to information handling: teaching abstracting to students of translation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Koltay, Tibor^{a; b}

Affiliations: [a] Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary | [b] Gödöllö University of Agricultural Sciences, H-3103 Gödöllö, Pf. 303, Hungary

Abstract: In “Professional Documentation”, a class designed to make Hungarian students of English translation familiar with written genres, that are not translations, abstracting plays an important role, Students get theoretical background to abstracting, where the structure and objectivity of the abstract, the features of its informative variant receive special attention, Practical student activities include analyzing and writing abstracts in different settings.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1997-15104

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 35-42, 1997