Do's & Dont's
Should be written in your own words.
Do
The practice of taking someone else's work and passing them off as your own.
Plagiarism
Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words
Concise
What is a summary?
A shorter passage that sums up the information in a longer passage.
What is the first thing to do?
Read the question first.
Give supporting details
Dont
However, Also, On top of that.
Transition words
It is arranged in the order it happened
Chronological order
We do not copy sentences from the paragraph but we...........
Paraphrase
After you have read and selected the main points, what is the final step?
Write the summary.
Explain why you are writing
Dont
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inference
A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
Compound Sentence
If i tell you my limit, don't go over me
Word Count
After reading the question, what do you do?
Read the passage.
Must be shorter than the text
Do
Appropriate to what is being done or considered.
Relevant
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
Conjunctions
What MUST be in your first sentence?
The Main Idea
While reading the passage, what should you do?
Highlight key points.
Give general background information
DONT!
A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
Topic sentence
The end or finish of an event or process.
Conclusion
what do you do to combine the sentences in your summary?
Add a transition
Before writing the summary (the paragraph), you must...
write out key pints.