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Annotating, Book

Here are entered works on the technique of writing a brief description of the scope of a book and its author's approach, in order to allow readers to determine whether the book interests them.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Abstracting

• Annotating, Book -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

• Book annotating

• Creating an Annotation: A Manual on Writing and Editing Annotations (revised and expanded edition, 2003), by Vicki Fitzpatrick (PDF and text at loc.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Précis Writing for Beginners (London: Blackie and Son, ca.1917), by Guy Noel Pocock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Progressive Course of Précis Writing (1913), by Frederick Eden Robeson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Usefulness of Analytic Abstracts (1922), by Gordon S. Fulcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indexing and Précis Writing (London: Macmillan, 1908), by G. B. Beak (multiple formats at archive.org)