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What is a summary? • A summary is a shortened passage, which retains the important and necessary information of the original. It is a fairly brief restatement --- in your own words ---of the contents of a passage. • Note: you simply report back what the writer has said, without making value judgments (giving your opinion). What is a Summary? A summary is a shortened version of an original text. It includes the main idea and major supporting points, and should reveal the relationship between the major points and the main idea. Summarizing is a powerful reading strategy. It increases comprehension and retention of information. When you summarize, you restate the most important information of a text, using your own words. Summary Short account of the central ideas of a text Summaries are not a place for… Opinions Background knowledge Personal information
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