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Writing Summaries

12/11/2018

 
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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: 

  • High Quality of Life
  • Lay off Juice 

To see more Writing Tips on the skill of summarizing, click here. 



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    My name is Craig, and  I've been teaching English for many years. I initially created this site for my students, but all English learners are welcome. I hope you find something helpful to you. Feel free to leave suggestions or ideas in the Comments section under any entry. 

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