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    The document discusses how to write a summary for an ESL exam. It explains that a summary should identify and write the main points from the passage in your own words in an organized manner. It provides tips for writing a summary such as reading the question and passage carefully, underlining key points, writing a short introduction, organizing points chronologically or using other structures, using connectives, using your own words, and sticking to the word limit.

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    Reading & Writing: Exercise 4

    (Summary writing)
    Exercise 4 of ESL paper, is summary writing. A passage will be given,
    on which you are required to write a summary.

    What is a summary? The formal definition is: a brief statement or


    account of the main points of something. And that’s exactly what you
    have to do. Identify the main, relevant points and write them in your
    own words in an organized manner.
    This is the part of the paper I, personally, had the most trouble with. It is
    not as easy as it looks. So, let’s get to it.

     Read the question properly.


    What exactly do you have to write a summary on. In the question,
    they could specify one or more detail. So you need to write the
    summary on just those details. Leave out the rest.

    w17_qp22. See the emboldened part? That”s what you have to


    focus on.
     Read the passage.
    As you go, underline the points that you need to include in your
    summary, that are relevant and important to the question.

     Write the summary.


    That’s easier said than done. You have got all your points, now
    you need to collate and organise it into one write-up using your
    own words.

     Write a one-line introduction that tells the examiner what
    you’re writing a summary on. Keep it short. In the
    example above, you could start the summary by
    writing : Poon Lim, a ship-wreck victim, managed to
    survive an astounding 133 days on an island all alone.

     Start organising the points. You could do it
    chronologically, advantage-disadvantage format or
    problem-solution format- whatever works for the task at
    hand. In the example above, writing points in their
    chronological order seems to be the right choice since it’s
    a narrative type of article.

     Use connectives, lots of them, to organise your points and
    add a sense of continuity. Some examples are:
    Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly, In Addition/Also/Furthermore,
    Consequently/As a result, Thus/Hence etc.

     Use your own words. Use synonyms of word in the
    passage, if possible. In the example above, the phrase
    ‘invented ways to find food and water’ can be changed
    to ‘came up with a system to obtain food and water’.

     You don’t have to write a conclusion. If the question
    asked you to write the summary on the entire passage,
    then maybe a conclusion would be fitting. But in questions
    like the one above, it is irrelevant to the question.

     Stick to the word limit. For the extended paper you have
    to write at least 100 word but not more than 120 words.
    For the core paper you need to write at least 70 word but
    not more than 80 words. Don’t write too much; scrap
    unnecessary points not relevant to the question; cut short
    words.

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