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    The document discusses the basics of summarizing including that it is used to determine the essential ideas in a text and helps deepen understanding. A good summary is concise, includes the main points and conclusion, and does not include verbatim quotes or personal opinions.

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    Essential Writing Skills

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    The document discusses the basics of summarizing including that it is used to determine the essential ideas in a text and helps deepen understanding. A good summary is concise, includes the main points and conclusion, and does not include verbatim quotes or personal opinions.

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    The document discusses the basics of summarizing including that it is used to determine the essential ideas in a text and helps deepen understanding. A good summary is concise, includes the main points and conclusion, and does not include verbatim quotes or personal opinions.

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    Essential Writing Skills

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    The document discusses the basics of summarizing including that it is used to determine the essential ideas in a text and helps deepen understanding. A good summary is concise, includes the main points and conclusion, and does not include verbatim quotes or personal opinions.

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    Essential

    Writing
    Skills
    Basics of Summarizing
    – Summarizing is an important skill in critical
    reading.
    – It is used to determine the essential ideas in a
    book, article, book chapter, an article or parts of
    an article.
    – It is generally done AFTER READING.
    Summarizing helps you to…

    – Deepen understanding of the text


    – Learn to identify relevant information or key ideas
    – Combine details or examples that support the main idea
    – Concentrate on the gist or main idea and keywords
    presented in the text.
    – Capture the key ideas in the text and put them together
    clearly and consicely
    Not summarizing when you…

    – Write down everything


    – Write down ideas from the text word-for-word
    – Write down incoherent and irrelevant ideas
    – Write down ideas that are not stated in the text
    – Write down a summary that has the same length or
    is longer than the original text
    – Write in the present tense.
    – Make sure to include the author, the year, and title
    of the work.
    – For Example:
    – In Pixar’s 2003 movie, Finding Nemo…
    – In Stephen King’s horror book The
    Shining (1977),…
    – In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not
    Stop for Death (1890)
    – Be concise: a summary should not be equal in
    length to the original text; it should be about 1/10
    as long.
    – Include 2–3 main points of the text or work.

    – Include the conclusion or the final findings of the


    work.
    – Avoid using quotations. A summary is not a
    paraphrase or a direct quote. If you must use the
    author's key words or phrases, always enclose
    them in quotation marks and cite.
    – Don't put your own opinions, ideas, or
    interpretations into the summary. The purpose of
    writing a summary is to accurately represent what
    the author wanted to say, not to provide a critique.
    Direct Quoting

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