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Summarising
This is necessary to capture your research in writing. Use it to show your understanding of an argument. You can use summary to show the key outcomes of a study or show a specific approach taken by a researcher.
Test your understanding of summarizing
Reading the information above. Think whether you agree with the statements below and click on them to see if the answers are TRUE or FALSE
TRUE. An in-text reference should be included together with the summary, with the full details included in the references at the end.
Tips for summarising
Read and think – what is this telling me – (in the fewest possible words)?
Write it in your own words. Be brief!
Record key details of each source used: put an in text reference close to the summary and list full details in the references at the end of your work.
Generally in each paragraph of an article a point is developed. If you link three or four such points together you have an ‘argument’. Using summary with strong quotation forms the basis of good writing.