An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
Summary writing is a process of reducing the size and content of a text into a shorter version called summary. The production of the summary depends on the existing text which is different from other writings such as essay writing and report writing (Hidi & Anderson, 1986). However, it is imp...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre for Academic Information Services, UNIMAS
2014
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| Summary: | Summary writing is a process of reducing the size and content of a text into a shorter version
called summary. The production of the summary depends on the existing text which is different
from other writings such as essay writing and report writing (Hidi & Anderson, 1986). However,
it is important to have good summarization skills in order to determine what to include, what to
eliminate, how to organize information and how to ensure that the summary retains the meaning
of the original text. There are five basic rules that are essential to produce adequate summaries
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