How To Summarise
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The document outlines a step-by-step process for summarizing articles, chapters, and webpages. It emphasizes quickly reading the material, identifying key points, grouping related ideas, and ensuring the summary is concise, not exceeding 10% of the original text. Additionally, it highlights the importance of including an APA reference and notes that formal introductions and conclusions should not be summarized.
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How To Summarise
- 1. How to Summarise Articles, Chapters and Webpages
- 2. Step One Read the article quickly to get an over view of what it contains. At this stage do not try to take notes.
- 3. Step Two Re-read the article Write down only a word or phrase that you think sums up each paragraph.
- 4. Step Three Check whether you can group any of your words or phrases together, or whether some of your words or phrases can just be crossed out.
- 5. Step Four Write your summary Check for word limit A summary should be no more than 10% of the length of the original writing
- 6. Step Five Edit your work to make sure it makes sense Quickly check back to see that you have in fact covered the main points of the article.
- 7. Step Six Make sure you have an APA reference in your summary to the original article
- 8. PLEASE NOTE: You are not expected to summarise the formal intrduction or conclusion of the material you are providing a summary of With long articles (3000+ words) the skill is to summarise the main points of the whole article, not every paragraph