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Preface for Instructors | |
Note to the Student | |
Structures | |
-Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation | |
What Is a Summary? | |
Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
Using the Summary | |
Box: Where do We Find Written Summaries? | |
The Reading Process | |
Box: Critical Reading for Summary | |
How to Write Summaries | |
Box: Guidelines for Writing Summaries | |
Demonstration: Summary | |
Will Your Job be Exported? | |
Read, Reread, Underline | |
Divide into Stages of Thought | |
Write a Brief Summary of Each Stage of Thought | |
Write a Thesis: A Brief Summary of the Entire Passage | |
Write the First Draft of the Summary | |
Combine Thesis Sentence | |
Brief Section Summaries | |
Combine Thesis Sentence, Section Summaries, and Carefully Chosen Details | |
How Long Should a Summary Be? | |
Individual and Collaborative Summary Practice | |
Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay | |
Dreams of Patagonia-Bruce Chatwin | |
Box: How to Summarize Personal Essays and Narratives | |
Summarizing Figures and Tables | |
Summarizing Graphs | |
Summarizing Pie Charts | |
Summarizing Line Graphs | |
Summarizing Tables Paraphrase | |
Box: How to Write Paraphrases | |
Summarizing and Paraphrasing | |
More Paraphrasing Quotations | |
Choosing Quotations | |
Quoting Memorable Language | |
Box: When to Quote Quoting | |
Clear and Concise Language Quoting | |
Authoritative Language | |
Incorporating Quotations into Your Sentences | |
Quoting Only the Part of a Sentence or Paragraph That You Need | |
Incorporating the Quotation into the Flow of Your Own Sentence | |
Avoiding Freestanding Quotations | |
Incorporating Quotations | |
Using Ellipses | |
Using Brackets to Add or Subs | |
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