Amazing Summarising!

Hello everyone!

Today our class has a new chapter which is summary. Summary can be defined as condensation or shortened version of a text. Summary usually used for summarize, simply or short the text. It is helping us to get the information directly rather than need to read in detailed. From the text given, we need to identify necessary and important information to construct a summary. In summary should include the main points and the major supporting details of the whole text. It is important to exclude any opinions, background knowledge and personal information in the summary. If we include any one of it, our summary considered poor summary writing since the objective of writing summary to give important point of the original text.

Before this we already learnt about paraphrase right? Basically, summary might look like a paraphrase but there are the different between them.

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In summary, there two types of summary we can used which are 

1) one sentence summary: commonly used in academic writing where more concern about thesis statement of the author’s idea and 

2) informative summary: consist of author’s main ideas, main supporting details, data and arguments where more longer.

In writing, we should know how to get the maximum mark or have a good writing. Writing summary also has its own characteristic to have a good summary. There are four characteristics of summary that I’d learnt in the class.

FIRST: proper citation

•   State the title, author and source of the text

SECOND: main ideas

•   Clearly stated the thesis statement
• Exclude the additional personal opinions, views and judgement except key ideas from author
•   Exclude the examples, illustrations, descriptions and detailed explanations

THIRD: paraphrase

•  Rewrite using own words and sentence structure of author’s ideas
•  Ensure did not unchanged the original ideas of author when paraphrase

FOURTH: length

•   Should shorter than given text
•   Depends on summarise attention either for one-sentence summary or informative summary

That’s all about the topic this week, hopefully for better writing in future we are able to apply it in our writing. The most important thing is we are able to write better than before and able to write in proper, appropriate and improve our writing skills. 

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