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Objectives 1. Give an appropriate definition for a summary 2. Know the characteristics of a good summary 3. Learn the techniques in summary writing 4. Learn the steps in summary writing 5. Practice I. What is a summary? ◼A summary is a condensed version of a long piece of writing, which retains the essential information of the original. It is a brief restatement in your own words of the main ideas and main details. ◼ Note: you simply report back what the writer has said, without making any judgments or giving your own opinions. II. Characteristics of a good summary ◼ Should give an objective outline of the original text: who? what? When? Where? Why? How? ,using your own wording ◼ Is a faithful reproduction of the main idea and the main evidence supporting that idea. ◼ Is short and brief without any unnecessary detail or your own ideas / opinions; ◼ May use key words from the original text but should not contain whole sentences unless quotation marks are used. ◼ Is a readable unified whole Four C’S of a summary ◼ Complete — it covers the major parts of the project/case /paper. ◼ Concise — it contains no excessive wordiness or unnecessary information. ◼ Clear — it is readable, well organized, and not too jargon-laden. ◼ Cohesive — it flows smoothly between the parts. ◼ Cohesion refers to the logical or gr tical or lexical relationships between the different elements of a text. This may be the ◼ Cohesion here refers to the logical or gr tical or lexical relationships between the different elements of a text. This may be the relationship between different paragraphs or between different sentences or between different parts of a sentence. ◼ There are various devices menting sentenc