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objective summary

• a category of literature based on style, form, or subject matter
• a summary that includes just the facts, no opinion
• to back up with facts or evidence
• identify and follow the steps from start to finish

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Which is the BEST summary of this story?

• Aliens take over a neighborhood.
• A neighborhood is plunged into darkness by a suspected meteor hit and all the neighbors go crazy and kill each other.
• On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and suspicious people wake the residents' paranoia to a disastrous and surprising end.
• Tommy gets everyone to believe his story about alien invasions, and Charlie persists in accusing everyone who is a little different of being the aliens

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Is it an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.
Select the best summary of this paragraph.

• Termites are lighter in color and loose their wings at a certain stage of development.
• Ants are dark in color, hard bodied and belong to a different order than termites.
• Ants and termites are both insects and have many things in common
• Although ants resemble termites, they have differences that can be easily seen.

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When writing a summary, it is okay to include any opinions or background knowledge you have on the topic.

• False
• True

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

• The Summary is one detail that is true but is not in the passage.
• The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
•  The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.
• The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.

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When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.
• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
•  Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
•  There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

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Parenthetical Citations (paraphrases) are used ___________________.

• at the end of the paper
• within the Works Cited
• to cite summarized information 
• to cite direct quotes

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Rewrite the sentence:
If you are tired, you should have a rest. 

• You should have a rest if you are tired.
• If you are tired you should have a rest. 
• You should have a rest, if you are tired.

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A reviewer wrote that the musical was "dazzling, colorful, beautifully performed, and had many outstanding special effects."
Which of the following shows how the author could correctly use an ELLIPSIS to shorten the quote?

• A critic wrote that the musical was "dazzling, colorful, and beautifully performed. . . ."
• A critic wrote that the musical was "dazzling, colorful, . . . and beautifully performed."
• A  critic wrote that the musical was "dazzling, colorful, and beautifully . . . performed."
• A critic wrote that . . . the musical was "dazzling, colorful, and beautifully performed."

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What word means, "to give a brief statement of the main points of (something)"?

• related

• purpose

• summarize

• contradict

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