Okay, let’s break down how to do Summarising, drawing from the sources and keeping it easy to understand with emojis! 😄📝📚
What is Summarising? 🤔📖
Summarising follows note-making. While note-making is usually for your own personal reference, summarising is used if the main points are to be reported.
The purpose of summarising is the selection and paraphrasing of all important information from the original source. You do this by analysing the paragraphs or passage to plan your writing.
How is it Done? 🚶♀️➡️📝✨
The process involves steps similar to note-making:
- Underlining important ideas. ✨✍️
- Writing them down, often abridging the verbs initially, although you’ll expand later. ✍️✂️
However, there are key differences and additions for summarising:
- You should avoid examples, explanations, and repetition. 🚫🗣️🔁
- Instead of just listing points in note form or nominalising (changing verbs to nouns) as in note-making, you expand the points into full sentences. ✍️➡️📜
- You link these sentences using suitable connectors. 🔗➡️
- You need to be precise in your expression. Using one word for many can help make it concise. For example, saying “Precocious children often turn out to be mediocre” instead of a longer sentence.
- The summary will contain all the main ideas of the original.
- A summary is usually one-third the length of the original passage.
Think of it as taking the skeleton of your notes and putting ‘flesh’ on it using concise, linked sentences, making sure you’ve captured the core message without the extra details! 😄💡✍️🤏