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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.
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.
Reading the information above, do you think the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Click on the statement to reveal the answer
If I summarise other people's ideas I still need to reference them
TRUE. You need to acknowledge anyone else's work.
If I summarise a block of text from another person's work, I cite the source at the end of the work
TRUE. An in-text reference should be included together with the summary, with the full details included in the references at the end.
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