The interactive techniques of work with foreign professional literature at a special faculty

Abstract

Annotation is considered as a summary of the contents of the initial document drawn up as a result of the text compression, which gives a brief description of the content and highlights the issues touched upon in the original document. There has been determined that an abstract contains in a compressed form the information about the original text, its purpose, subject, research methods and findings. The general requirements for writing an annotation are as follows: taking into account annotation designation; the volume of annotation; compliance of the logical structure that may be different from the order of information rendered in the original; abidance for linguistic annotation features. The methods of teaching the strategies of annotating are based on compression of text on the semantic and structural and stylistic levels. There has been determined that while writing annotations it’s desirable to use simple sentences containing passive constructions, homogeneous predicates, participial constructions, impersonal sentences etc.