Apr 8 - Summarizing Sources 2

Today we will...

1. learn how to summarize academic sources
2. use a checklist to evaluate the effectiveness of summary
3. learn how to avoid wordiness and how to combine sentences

Academic Source Summary

We have learned how to summarize articles and stories last time in class, and we will learn how to summarize academic sources today. Here is a presentation on how to summarize academic sources.

Practice

Now please take out the article that you will use for research paper writing. Open this file and answer all the questions.

Now use this file and follow the steps to summarize the article.

Again, use this checklist to evaluate the effectiveness of the summary.

More about Summary

When summarizing, we need to make it concise in order to make it effective.

Here is how to avoid wordiness.

Here is how to combine sentences.