Making a good summary

What are the features of an academic summary? Name at least four features.

-          Using your own words

-          Paraprasing others’ ideas

-          Retaining key wordt from the passage

-          Organizing the main points similair tot he original

Which sentence of the summary is the most important? Why?

The first sentence is to warm up. If the reader is not interested he will not read the rest.

What are descriptive terms? Name four examples of such terms.

When you use descriptive terms, you get a sense of the tone of the writer

-          Critique

-          High

-          Limited

-          Restrictive

What may await you if you borrow someone's ideas without citing?

It’s not allowed because it is plagiarism.

What is meant through "work as an internal investigator?

You have to readand reread the text. After that you have yo carry 3-5 key words and ideas into you summary. At last you observe the organization of the ideas in the text.