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The document provides tips for writing summaries, including keeping them short (3 sentences or less), using your own wording, and identifying the author's central idea without including personal opinions. Key aspects to include are the main idea, relevant details, and what the author aimed to communicate. When reading to summarize, identify the thesis, topic sentences, and structure using headings to list the main ideas and evidence. Technical language or repeated keywords are likely important to include. A good summary objectively outlines the central argument and supporting evidence without irrelevant details or simply rearranging the original.

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Slides Summary Writing

The document provides tips for writing summaries, including keeping them short (3 sentences or less), using your own wording, and identifying the author's central idea without including personal opinions. Key aspects to include are the main idea, relevant details, and what the author aimed to communicate. When reading to summarize, identify the thesis, topic sentences, and structure using headings to list the main ideas and evidence. Technical language or repeated keywords are likely important to include. A good summary objectively outlines the central argument and supporting evidence without irrelevant details or simply rearranging the original.

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01-Feb-19

Summary writing
• A summary is a condensed version of a larger reading.

• A summary is not a rewrite of the original piece

• Summaries do not have to be long.


• …nor should they be long.

Summaries: tips for writing


• Keep your summary short.
• Use your own wording.
• Identify and explain the author’s central idea in the original piece.

• Do not put in your opinion of the issue or topic discussed in the


original piece.

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01-Feb-19

How to write a summary


• Use your own words to briefly explain:
• the main idea
• relevant, supporting details

• Give the basic ideas and outline of the original reading.


• What was it about?
• What did the author want to communicate?
• What (or who) is the focus?

Summaries: tips while reading


• Identify the author’s thesis.
• Look for all the topic sentences and transition words.

• Use headings and sub-headings as a guide.

• List or cluster…
• the main idea of the whole piece
• the main supporting ideas, and
• the main evidence for each idea.

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01-Feb-19

Summaries: keywords and technical language


• Words that are repeated several times are likely to be keywords.

• Use of the same keywords or technical expressions is probably


unavoidable. (Ballhatchet, 2015)

• Provide an in-text citation on first use.

What makes a good summary?


Do… Do not…
Give an objective outline Offer subjective criticism

Describe the author’s main idea Include details that are


and supporting evidence that irrelevant to the main idea of the
proves it piece (digressions)

Express the sense of the original Simply rearrange words or follow


in your own words the author’s structure

(Ballhatchet, 2015)

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