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A good book dedicated to abstracting is Edward Cremmins' _The Art of
Abstracting_ (2nd ed., Information Resource Press, 1996).
Garret Romaine wrote:
> Anyone on this list have a cite or reference book on constructing
> abstracts? One of our marcom specialists is trying to help the
> engineers
> around here present papers.
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> Garret -dot- Romaine -at- Radisys -dot- com
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