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    The document discusses summarizing and provides steps to follow when summarizing a text. It explains that summarizing is identifying the main points and presenting them in your own words while excluding unnecessary details. The steps include skimming to get the overall idea, reading carefully to understand the purpose, scanning for main ideas and supporting points, paraphrasing these elements, and combining them using conjunctions. A good summary includes the original text's title, author, and source, its main idea or thesis, and paraphrased supporting points. An example summary of an essay is then provided to demonstrate these components.

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    The document discusses summarizing and provides steps to follow when summarizing a text. It explains that summarizing is identifying the main points and presenting them in your own words while excluding unnecessary details. The steps include skimming to get the overall idea, reading carefully to understand the purpose, scanning for main ideas and supporting points, paraphrasing these elements, and combining them using conjunctions. A good summary includes the original text's title, author, and source, its main idea or thesis, and paraphrased supporting points. An example summary of an essay is then provided to demonstrate these components.

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    The document discusses summarizing and provides steps to follow when summarizing a text. It explains that summarizing is identifying the main points and presenting them in your own words while excluding unnecessary details. The steps include skimming to get the overall idea, reading carefully to understand the purpose, scanning for main ideas and supporting points, paraphrasing these elements, and combining them using conjunctions. A good summary includes the original text's title, author, and source, its main idea or thesis, and paraphrased supporting points. An example summary of an essay is then provided to demonstrate these components.

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    The document discusses summarizing and provides steps to follow when summarizing a text. It explains that summarizing is identifying the main points and presenting them in your own words while excluding unnecessary details. The steps include skimming to get the overall idea, reading carefully to understand the purpose, scanning for main ideas and supporting points, paraphrasing these elements, and combining them using conjunctions. A good summary includes the original text's title, author, and source, its main idea or thesis, and paraphrased supporting points. An example summary of an essay is then provided to demonstrate these components.

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    Summarising

    1. What is summarising?
    Summarising is a skill in which you learn to identify the main points in the text and you
    write them in your own words. In summary, you learn to select and present only
    relevant information.

    2. How to summarise:
    These are the steps that you need to follow prior to summarising:
    a. Skim the text to get the overall idea
    b. Read more carefully and scan for the purpose of the text.
    c. Next, scan for main ideas and supporting points. Remember to highlight them.
    Ignore supporting examples and details.
    d. Paraphrase the identified main ideas and supporting points.
    e. Combine the paraphrased main ideas and supporting points by using conjunctions
    and adverbs such as “therefore”, “however”, “although”, and “since”.
    *Additional details, examples, unimportant information, anecdotes, examples,
    illustrations, and data should be excluded.

    3. Your written summary should include:


    a. The author, the title, and source of the original text
    b. The main idea or the thesis statement of the original text
    c. Paraphrased supporting points

    Below is a sample of a good summary:

    In the essay “E-notes from an Online Learner,” printed in Fawcett, Evergreen, Tenth Edition,
    student and mother Brenda Wilson contrasts her learning experiences in traditional and online
    classroom. Whereas Wilson’s long commute to campus once made her late to class and anxious, Comment [u1]: Title and source of original text

    she finds online classes more convenient because she can read lectures or submit coursework,
    any time, from home. Next, Ms. Wilson says that other students might prefer the energy of live Comment [u2]: The main idea or the thesis
    statement of the original text
    class discussion, but she feels freer online, writing her thoughts with less self-consciousness.
    Comment [u3]: Linker to ensure cohesion in the
    Finally, she stresses that online students must be self-motivated, unlike regular students who can summary
    rely on professors to prod them or on the “group adrenaline rush [of] seeing other students Comment [u4]: Supporting point I
    hunched over their notebooks.” Less focused students might procrastinate and drop out. Overall, Comment [u5]: Supporting point II

    Wilson prefers distance learning. Comment [u6]: Supporting point III


    Comment [u7]: Conclusion
    Summary taken from Evergreen: A Guide to Writing with Readings by Susan Fawcett

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