Summary Revision

What is a summary?

• A copy-and-paste exercise

• Understanding main ideas as per the question requirements

• A commentary to talk about your opinions

• An abstract of the passage

Which is NOT a paraphrasing strategy?

• Change of active to passive voice

• Use of synonyms

• Rearranging words in a sentence

• Use of similes and metaphors

Which of the following is not required to be paraphrased?

• Name of places/ people

• Adjectives

• Verbs

• Descriptive phrases

What does a passage analysis entail?

• Do a C-D-E-T

• Identify all the content points

• Consider the question requirements

• All of the above.

Which is important to be included in a summary?

• Additional connectors

• Cause-and-effect connectors

• Sequence connectors

• All of the above

Which of the following is NOT a rule in summary writing?

• No more than 80 words

• Continue from the helping words given at the start of the summary

• Include personal opinion

• Pick content points from the specified paragraphs

How can we organise our content points in summary writing?

• Use contrast or addition connectors to move from one category of points to another.

• Use phrasal verbs

• Write in paragraphs

• Use linking statements

What must be done when you are paraphrasing the content points?

• Omit articles and connectors to reduce word count.

• Ensure that the original meaning of the content points is not changed by finding accurate synonyms.

• Replace every single word in the identified sentence.

• Explain after every content point.