E-Lecture - Tips for Drafting a Summary
  • You can combine one or two sentences so that you get shorter sentences.
  • Use one word for several words.
  • Do not just copy and paste the content. Try to rephrase it.
  • Omit all the examples, illustrations, quotations, figures of speech and any ornamental language from the original text.
  • The most common thing observed is that learners often add their own interpretation or opinion in summary. Do not do this. The summary should be a reflection of the original text but in brief.

Title

Giving a suitable title to the summarized text is important. To find a suitable title, identify repetitions. If certain words are repeated throughout the text, it means the whole paragraph is related to that word.

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