Question

How to write a summary

Answer 1

How to produce a summary:

1.Read the article to be summarized and be sure you understand it.

2.Outline the article. Note the major points.

3.Write a first draft of the summary without looking at the article.

4.Always use paraphrase when writing a summary. If you do copy a phrase from the original be sure it is a very important phrase that is necessary and cannot be paraphrased. In this case put "quotation marks" around the phrase.

5.Target your first draft for approximately 1/4 the length of the original.

The features of a summary:

1.Start your summary with a clear identification of the type of work, title, author, and main point in the present tense.

Example: In the feature article "Four Kinds of Reading," the author, Donald Hall, explains his opinion about different types of reading.

2.Check with your outline and your original to make sure you have covered the important points.

3.Never put any of your own ideas, opinions, or interpretations into the summary. This means you have to be very careful of your word choice.

4. Write using "summarizing language." Periodically remind your reader that this is a summary by using phrases such as the article claims, the author suggests, etc

Answer 2

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$\longrightarrow$ A summary gives us the gist or essence of a given passage.

• It is written in one's one words
• It should be 1/3 of the original passage.

How to summarise a passage ?

• Read the passage carefully till you understand the subject matter throughly
• Put down the main ideas in the passage
• Arrange these in a regular connected series of sentences.
• Omit all ornamental language , similies and unnecessary details.
• Add nothing of your own
• It should be given in the same tense throughout

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