What is a Summary? [the following is an excerpt from eslactivities.com] A “summary” is the author’s ideas in your words. Two common errors that students make when they write a summary are: • Including their ideas and thoughts about the topic, but the author did not say these things {the problem here is it is not the author’s ideas} • Copying sentences from the article and making no changes to them or only very small changes (changing a vocabulary word, changing active voice to passive voice, etc.) {the problem here is it is not the student’s words} To read more about writing summaries click here To see some of the original articles from which the sample summaries on that page are based, click on the links below: To see more Writing Tips on the skill of summarizing, click here. Comments are closed.
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