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.

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

If I summarise other people's ideas I still need to reference them

If I summarise a block of text from another person's work, I cite the source at the end of the work

• 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.