Summary Writing Techniques
Title: Summary Writing Techniques
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1636 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Summary Writing Techniques
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1636 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
SUMMARY WRITING
A.<Tab/>Definitions
1.<Tab/>Outlining
An outline is a structural skeleton of the main points of the material as they appear in chronological, rather than logical, order.
2.<Tab/>Paraphrase
Paraphrasing, the restatement of another writer's ideas in your own words
3.<Tab/>Summary
Summarizing, the brief restatement of a longer text in fewer words than the original text.
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it critically.
o<Tab/>Can that person understand the sense of the article by reading your summary?
o<Tab/>Ask for criticism; then weigh these criticisms and make valid changes.
Editing Your Summary
*<Tab/>Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors, looking particularly for those common in your writing.
*<Tab/>Write a clean draft and proofread for copying errors.
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