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Summary Writing Process

The summary writing process involves five key steps: skimming for gist and identifying unknown words, scanning for relevant material and key phrases, transferring highlighted material into a personal list, structuring the plan logically, and finally writing the summary in an informative style. The summary must maintain objectivity, use complex sentences, and adhere to specified formatting guidelines. It should not exceed one page and must avoid personal commentary or narrative elements.

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Summary Writing Process

The summary writing process involves five key steps: skimming for gist and identifying unknown words, scanning for relevant material and key phrases, transferring highlighted material into a personal list, structuring the plan logically, and finally writing the summary in an informative style. The summary must maintain objectivity, use complex sentences, and adhere to specified formatting guidelines. It should not exceed one page and must avoid personal commentary or narrative elements.

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Summary Writing Process

1. Skim reading
[Read (new) passage for gist of time, place, genre and topic, identifying unknown words to be
worked out using one of the 4 methods: syllabic break down; recognition of similarity to
another English word; recognition of similarity to a word in another language; guessing from
context.]

2. Scan reading
[After reading summary question and underlining key words in the instruction, return to
passage and highlight (possibly in two colours for two different aspects) the relevant material.
Identify and highlight only the key word or phrase. Examples, repetitions, direct speech,
figurative language and trivial details should be excluded.]

3. Transfer to plan
[Transfer the highlighted material to a list, changing the words and phrases into own words at
the same time. Some technical words cannot be changed and some individual words from the
passage can be used, but long phrases should not be lifted. All the relevant points should be
used, not just the minimum of 15].

4. Structuring the plan


[The points in the plan should be grouped logically and reordered - to make it possible to
combine more than one point per sentence - using brackets and arrows. The summary should
be divided into two separate parts.]

5. Writing the summary


[The summary should be written in informative style, in complex sentences (avoiding and),
and using the same tense and person as the question (third person). Check afterwards for
lack of clarity and concision, and repetition, all of which affect the writing mark. It must not be
longer than one page in total. The summary must be purely objective and without narrative,
comment, introduction or conclusion.]

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