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Course image Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting and Extracting
Basic Methodology
Course Summary:
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This Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting & Extracting course enriches your skills, knowledge, and training through the course reading materials, practicals, and assignments to improve transcribing, abstracting, and extracting capabilities.
Note: Our students are studying different courses or countries, and many examples of documents from around the world are used to give as much experience of the differing formats and types of documents.
Contact Hours: 20
Grading Scale: 70% Tests/30% Assignments
Course Length: 9 weeks
Course Content
MODULE 1
TRANSCRIPTIONS
What is a Transcription?
General Rules for Transcriptions
Citation and Other Documentation
Method of Transcribing a Document
Method of Transcribing Directly from the Original Document
MODULE 2
WORD PROCESSING FEATURES
Auto Correction
Spell Check
Automatic Capitalization
Superscript and Subscript
Small Capitals
Lines Over Letters
Tables
Indentations & Margins
Large Bracket
MODULE 3
ABSTRACTING
What is an Abstraction?
When to Abstract a Document?
General Rules for Abstracting
Method of Abstracting from a Transcribed Document
Method of Abstracting Directly from a Document
MODULE 4
PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Transcription Exercise
MODULE 5
EXTRACTION
What is an Extraction?
Census
Church Registers
General Rules for Extracting
QUOTATIONS
What is a Quotation?
General Rules for Quoting
MODULE 6
PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Transcription Exercise
Abstraction Exercise
Transcription Exercise
Quotation Exercise
MODULE 1
TRANSCRIPTIONS
What is a Transcription?
General Rules for Transcriptions
Citation and Other Documentation
Method of Transcribing a Document
Method of Transcribing Directly from the Original Document
MODULE 2
WORD PROCESSING FEATURES
Auto Correction
Spell Check
Automatic Capitalization
Superscript and Subscript
Small Capitals
Lines Over Letters
Tables
Indentations & Margins
Large Bracket
MODULE 3
ABSTRACTING
What is an Abstraction?
When to Abstract a Document?
General Rules for Abstracting
Method of Abstracting from a Transcribed Document
Method of Abstracting Directly from a Document
MODULE 4
PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Transcription Exercise
MODULE 5
EXTRACTION
What is an Extraction?
Census
Church Registers
General Rules for Extracting
QUOTATIONS
What is a Quotation?
General Rules for Quoting
MODULE 6
PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Transcription Exercise
Abstraction Exercise
Transcription Exercise
Quotation Exercise