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    EAPP Midterms Reviewer

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    This document provides guidance on summarizing texts in 3 sentences or less. It explains that a summary should be shorter than the original text, use your own words to convey the main ideas only, and include an in-text citation. The document outlines the steps to summarize, including reading the whole text, underlining main ideas and details, paraphrasing in your own words, and writing a one or two sentence summary. It also discusses when to summarize, how to properly cite summaries, and the differences between paraphrasing, quoting, abstracts, precis, and summaries.

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    This document provides guidance on summarizing texts in 3 sentences or less. It explains that a summary should be shorter than the original text, use your own words to convey the main ideas only, and include an in-text citation. The document outlines the steps to summarize, including reading the whole text, underlining main ideas and details, paraphrasing in your own words, and writing a one or two sentence summary. It also discusses when to summarize, how to properly cite summaries, and the differences between paraphrasing, quoting, abstracts, precis, and summaries.

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    This document provides guidance on summarizing texts in 3 sentences or less. It explains that a summary should be shorter than the original text, use your own words to convey the main ideas only, and include an in-text citation. The document outlines the steps to summarize, including reading the whole text, underlining main ideas and details, paraphrasing in your own words, and writing a one or two sentence summary. It also discusses when to summarize, how to properly cite summaries, and the differences between paraphrasing, quoting, abstracts, precis, and summaries.

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    EAPP Midterms Reviewer

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    This document provides guidance on summarizing texts in 3 sentences or less. It explains that a summary should be shorter than the original text, use your own words to convey the main ideas only, and include an in-text citation. The document outlines the steps to summarize, including reading the whole text, underlining main ideas and details, paraphrasing in your own words, and writing a one or two sentence summary. It also discusses when to summarize, how to properly cite summaries, and the differences between paraphrasing, quoting, abstracts, precis, and summaries.

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    Midterms Reviewer (EAPP)

    Topic - who or what the passage is


    Basics of Summarizing about
    - the main idea or gist of a text Main Idea - The most important point
    in a condensed form. the author is making about the topic
    - Break down the larger ideas Details - specific words and
    and convey the most sentences that are repeated in the
    important information in the text
    text.
    Getting the Main Idea:
    S - Shorter than the text - Read the title
    U - Use your own words - Look for words that are used
    M - Main ideas only repeatedly
    - Usually found in the first or last
    When to summarize? paragraph
    - You want to synthesize varying
    research ideas and points APA In-text:
    - You want to provide an (Last name, Year) / According to
    overview of a topic. [Last name] (Year),
    How to summarize? Ex: (Alinea, 2021) / According to
    1. Read the whole text. Alinea (2021),
    2. Use a highlighter or a colored
    pen to underline main ideas Formats:
    and supporting details. ● Idea Heading - summarized idea
    3. Paraphrase what you’ve comes first
    highlighted in your own words. ● Author Heading - author’s name
    4. Review the highlighted parts of first
    the text. ● Date Heading - date of
    publication first (In their 2004
    5. Synthesize the main ideas and
    study….)
    write a one or two sentence/s
    summary of the text.
    6. Keep the summary neutral, no
    giving of opinions.
    7. Use present tense. Paraphrasing and Quoting
    8. Include in-text citation.
    Paraphrasing
    - about the same length as the
    original text
    - discuss a point in your own words.
    - To avoid overusing quotations
    - to present statistical data and
    - numerical information
    - Use synonyms and change the
    sentence structure
    - Include in-text citation

    Quoting
    - to highlight a particular point or
    passage
    - Using the author’s words as a Quoting Summari
    support your argument zing
    - to disagree with the author’s Exact Include
    wording
    argument in-text Shorter than
    Quotation
    - Author + quotation marks + marks citationUsethe original
    passage + page number your
    Paraphras own
    ing words

    Same length
    as original

    Abstract, Precis, Summary

    Abstract
    - presents an overview of an article
    or report in condensed form.
    - a well-developed write up that
    highlights the major findings and
    purpose of the article or research
    - Usually done for research
    - A type of summary
    - Done after doing the research
    - Found at the beginning of the ● 20 nos. for multiple choice
    research article ● 2 nos. in making a summary (1
    - < 300 words sentence)
    - Uses compound and complex ● 4 nos. in paraphrasing essays
    sentences ● 2 nos. direct quoting essays
    Precis
    - summary of an article or book
    that uses the language
    (particularly the key terms,
    phrases) and overall structure of
    the original source.
    - Focuses on every detail and
    analyzes a particular situation
    Summary
    - you must use your own words as
    much as possible, focusing on the
    main idea/s of the text.
    - Main points

    Components of an abstract:
    1. Research problem
    2. Methodology
    3. Findings
    4. conclusion/ implication

    Kinds of Abstract:
    - Descriptive: piques the interest of
    the audience (do not give away
    the actual content of the
    material)
    - Summative: readily present the
    key ideas and major finding of the
    study, preferred in an academic
    setting

    Structure lol (source: eggy)

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