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Formal Academic Summary Medium --Summary Audience --professional peers Purpose --to inform Before moving ahead with this assignment, please take a look at how this thing is scheduled in our Weekly Assignments folder. General Guidelines: 1) Follow same order and organization as the original 2) Follow same authorial perspective as the original 3) Do NOT quote from the original. Paraphrase, use your own language. But technical and specialized terms are okay 4) Do NOT judge or evaluate what the original says, be objective. Your job is simply to reduce 5) Set a “consistency equation” a) Every paragraph in original = one sentence in summary b) Every section in original = one paragraph in summary Procedures for a “formal” summary: 1.

Read the original article. You will want to number the paragraphs in the margins as you read.

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Read the article again. Underline any KEY words or points as you read (But don’t underline the entire article!).

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“Chunk” the article into sections (if it isn’t already separated into sections). These “chunks” will be typically 5-6 paragraphs in length related by topic. That is, each section will be a subsection of the article (Introduction, Subtopic #1, Subtopic #2, Subtopic #3, Conclusion).

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On a scrap piece of paper, write ONE SENTENCE that captures the key point of the 1st paragraph. [THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP OF THE PROCESS: YOU NEED TO READ CAREFULLY AND INTERPRET THE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH. DO NOT SIMPLY “PULL OUT” ONE OF THE SENTENCES FROM THE ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH.]

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Do the same for every paragraph of the article. When you’re finished, you should have ONE SENTENCE for EVERY PARAGRAPH of the original article.

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Use the “chunks” you made in step #3 as paragraph boundaries for your summary. That is, take your sentence summaries for the paragraphs in section 1; these will make up the 1st paragraph of your summary. Do the same for the remaining sections. When you’re finished, you will have ONE PARAGRAPH in your summary for EVERY SECTION of the original article.

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Read the paragraphs of your summary. Make sure they show good paragraph development (and make sense!). You may need to add transitions or “tie the sentences together” in other ways. Look for any relationships between sentence ideas that need to be made overt (because of, since, while, for example, after, when, however, although, moreover, therefore).

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Read your entire summary. It should be intelligible to someone who has NOT read the original article.

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In the first paragraph you should mention the author(s) and title of the work....