How to Summarize: STUDY SKILLS

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We offer the reader all the essentials about study techniques to summarize and synthesize a book or text.

Study techniques. Summarizing: what it is - what it is not. Summaries for oneself or for others. Four rules of thumb. Characteristics of good writing. Actions of reading and writing study texts. How to highlight key ideas: frames. How to organize lists, classifications or definitions: frames, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LA BISAGRA TÉCNICAS DE ESTUDIO
• Release date: Dec 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393929123

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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How to Summarize

La Bisagra | Buenos Aires | 2010

Fau, Mauricio Enrique

How to summarize. - 1st English edition – Ebook

Translated from: Cómo resumir - Buenos Aires: La Bisagra Editorial, 2010. 64 p. ; 17x11 cm. - (Study Techniques / Mauricio Enrique Fau; 1) - ISBN 978-987-1719-19-8

1. Auxiliary Teaching Materials. I. Title CDD 371.33

Mauricio Fau graduated from the University of Buenos Aires -UBA- with a major in Political Science. He also studied Law at the UBA and Journalism at the University of Morón.

He has also completed postgraduate courses from the specialization in Political Science for the Master in Social Sciences at FLACSO (Latin American Social Sciences Institute).

Fau attended to several workshops and seminars at different educational institutions, among them the IADE (Argentine Institute for the Economic Development).

Representing FLACSO, he took part in the National Conferences Nietzsche 1994 with a paper included in the corresponding book, edited by EUDEBA, the University of Buenos Aires Press.  He has also collaborated with publications related to Social Sciences and co-directed radio shows of political and historical orientation.

Professionally, he has been a University Professor in Political Science at the UBA, and he is currently the Academic Director at La Bisagra Editorial, as well as the author of many University-level books.

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