How To Write Summary Writing?
Test your knowledge after the instructor's lecture on summary writing. Let's play and learn more about it!
- 1.Which of the following things are true about summaries?
- A.
Summaries are an overview of an entire work
- B.
Summaries are shorter than paraphrases
- C.
Summaries are more than 500 words long
- D.
Summaries are broader in scope than paraphrases
- 2.Why do writers write summaries?
- A.
They help the writer clarify the meaning of a source, and they show the audience the quality of the author’s ethos.
- B.
Because teachers assign them
- C.
Because they help the writer needs to fill space and because it helps the reader follow the essay's flow
- 3.What happens first in a summary?
- A.
Introducing Rhetorical Circumstances of the Source
- B.
Restatement of the Source’s Main ideas.
- C.
Explanation of Evidence Used in the Source
- D.
Explaining how the source fits into larger discourse on the topic.
- 4.In academic writing, summaries are almost always used the first time a writer introduces a source as a way to prove credibility.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Summaries in academic writing are, by convention, all paraphrase.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Summaries are not cited.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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