The ability of students to write annotations to scientific and technical texts as a necessary means of teaching a foreign language at a technical university

The article discusses the features of technical texts and the preparation of students for writing annotations to them. The main means of teaching students of chemical specialties are developed by the author's teaching aids. They are built taking into account interdisciplinary links with the disciplines of the humanitarian and socio-economic cycles and are aimed at preparing the writing of annotations necessary to work on technical texts on specialties at different difficulty levels at various levels of education. For the correct writing of the annotation to a scientific article, clear guidelines and recommendations are given, as well as clichés, for a more accurate transfer of the content of the article. Students are offered a plan for writing annotations and lexical tasks that successfully and purposefully lead the student to writing annotations to the article.