Ex. 4 Read this text and answer 6 questions

A summary traditionally contains the main ideas of the original document. Depending on the method of development used by the writer, it might include some major examples. Sometimes a summary contains indirect quotation, but it usually does not contain direct quotation. Therefore, do not use direct quotation of the original wording.

A summary should be written only in your own words. You should not use the original wording. Instead, you should carefully read the original article, book, report, and so on carefully in order to understand the author’s main ideas. Make an outline of the text in your own words. Use phrases in the outline. Then use your own words to say what the author wrote.

A summary usually contains the attitude and opinion of the author, so do not let your opinion interfere with the ideas you are summarizing. Also, do not add any new ideas to the summary that are not in the text being summarized. Do not elaborate with details not used in the original passage.

A summary should be concise, accurate, short, clearly written, complete, and well organized. It should also reflect your ability to understand the meanings of words, the author's attitude, and any implied meanings.

In a summary, never criticize or judge the writer in any way. A well-written summary is not a critique, response, or editorial.

Now answer the questions to the extract:

1. What ideas does the summary contain?

2. What kind of quotation does a summary contain: direct or indirect? Why?

3. Why should a summary be written in your own words?

4. How should you analyze the original source?

5. A summary is to be concise, accurate, clearly written, complete, and well organized, isn’t it?

6. Why it is not allowed to criticize or judge the writer of the original source in any way?

Ex. 5 Sum up useful tips on writing a summary and make a short report on the topic.

Ex.6

Make 1.paraphrasing and

A summary of the following text. Remember, that a Summary is a shortened version of the text. 15 min

Science problems can be roughly classified as analytic and syn­thetic. In analytic problems we seek the principles of the most profound natural processes, the scientist working always at the edge of the un­known. This is the situation today, for instance, within the two ex­tremes of research in physics - elementary particle physics and astro­physics - both concerned with the properties of matter, one on the smallest, and the other on the grandest scale. Research objectives in these fields are determined by the internal logic of the development of the field itself. Revolutionary shocks to the foundations of scientific ideas can be anticipated from these very areas.

This is theoretical material.

Read it properly and understand thoroughly

Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.

Ex 7. Read the text «Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Quoting» and put «Yes» or «No»

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