How to make a summary
The advantage of the summaries is that it helps to achieve a better understanding of what was read. A summary is to reduce in a few words the essential of a topic, is to use the words of the author without adding comments or personal opinions. A summary has to attract the attention of the reader, for this it is useful to leave the least interest for the end. A summary has to answer the six key questions: what ?, who ?, how ?, when ?, where? and because?.
Steps to follow:one
Understand: give a general reading to the topic that will be studied. In this way the content of the subject will be known.
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Main idea: find out and grasp the main and most important idea of the book or topics that will summarize.
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Select: underline the most important ideas.
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List: make a list with the main and secondary ideas and establish a relationship between them.
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Compare: write a draft and later review it.
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Modify: correct and rectify as many times as necessary to make and write the final work.
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Do not generalize: when writing the notes do not generalize or write your opinions or judgments or personal opinions. You just have to summarize the ideas and thoughts of the author.
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Sort: try to follow the order of the author's exhibition.
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Extension of the summary: it depends on the importance of the subject and the place where it has to be published.
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Do not pose any question to the reader without solving it and you have to try to capture their attention from the first moment.
