The humorous article "Have you ever met a houseplant you really liked? Hi, i have to write a summary of an article and i can only have words. My article have many author, How can i introduce them in the introduction. How do u advice i should start my summary. This information is very helpful. My teacher wanted us to write a summary. Below are the requirements for summary introduction. Hi Riggzie! So glad you have decided to go to college! I think that when you are older in college, you really appreciate it more than when you've just graduated from high school.
As far as your question, I always need to remind people to follow the instructions of your teacher first. Different textbooks and teachers will give different instructions based on what they are trying to do in that assignment.
However, generally a summary does not have an opening or conclusion; however, if you are writing a summary, analysis, response which often is an assignment after the summary , you will be putting in some of those other elements. Good luck! Thank you very much. I am 47 and decided to go to college. I guess better late than never! I have been searching the web for summaries and I think you have helped me a lot. I was told by my family wife has 2 associates and a bachelors, and my oldest is 20 and in college that I should still do the opening paragraph, the content paragraph and a conclusion paragraph, but what you have listed is clearly not the case.
I take English Composition in my next semester, so I have to do run before I walk. Hi Ashi! You have asked a good question. There are two ways to cite more than one author. One is simply to list all of the authors when you first mention the article title and authors. The other way is to cite the first author and then add "et al.
Here is a sample to help you:. The article also suggests Furthermore, the authors conclude Hi Virginia! I am a student of Bachelor. Recently my teacher assigned me summary of an article. But my problem is that ,there are three authors of that article. Now plz tell me how I can start my summary and in the next am I mention the sir name of the three authors? Generally, references should be to where you found the article if it is a book or other published source such as a journal or magazine.
If it is a search engine like Gale that compiles different magazine articles, you would use the "cited in" format. I have a question, I have to write a report on an article at Uni, and the Article is 50 pages long and written by Jones When I reference the articles referenced in the Jones article, should it look like Jones, in all the instances.
Thanks you so much for the in formations that I have learnt here about Summary writing. It's very important for us non English speakers. Was greatly appreciated. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your gifts.
May you be blessed abundantly in the work you are doing. Hi Sandi, you don't tell me what age your son is, but that type of assignment is pretty straightforward for High School.
There are two ways to do a compare and contrast between passages. One way is to separate it into two sections: how the responses are similar; how the responses are different.
A different and generally more difficult but potentially better essay is to do talk about the passages topically and inside each topic explain what is same and different.
For example, topics could be: choices, responses, outcomes, character, tone of author, relevance to modern life etc.
Recently my son had brought home an English Essay that his teacher is only allowing students to complete in 2 days!! It is writing an essay on comparing 2 different stories, on the basis of "How we make decisions when faced with difficult choices? His instructions are to read both passages and write an essay in which compare Hercules' and the princess's responses to the choices they are given. He needs to support his discussion with evidence from the text.
What do you suggest on how I go about explaining how to compare the two texts in one essay? Hi James, my German is a bit rusty but I did a bit of searching for the answer and I think the problem is that English Present Perfect and German Perfekt are not quite the same.
In both English and German, we can refer to past events using a simple past and the present perfect; however, the German Perfekt is somehwat different than the English perfect in that the engish "We have eaten" means it began in the past and is now completed, while the German "Wir haben When I encounter these sorts of issues with students, I usually tell them that what I am trying to teach them is "standard English practice" which means that it is not just about rules but about how native speakers actually talk.
No native speaker is going to talk about a historical situation in the present tense even if there might be an obscure rule that would allow that.
If he does that, he will be regarded as having incorrect verb tenses, or else confuse the listener. However, I will usually not grade a person down in this sort of situation. Instead, I would allow them to redo the assignment or else just give them a good grade. Recently, I had one of my students write a summary of a historical event that I verbally had recounted. The purpose of the exercise was to test his listening comprehension. The story itself concerned a Saxon knight named Konrad von Wettin who lived in the 12th century.
The student proceeded to write a very nice summary which demonstrated his excellent listening skills. The problem was that he wrote the summary in the present tense. In response, I corrected his grammar by putting every sentence, when appropriate, into the past tense. To my surprise, he argued the corrections and stated that his German high school English teacher told the class to write summaries only in the present tense.
My student went further to claim that if he had turned in a summary written in the past tense that he would have received a poor grade. Is my student correct? If so, why is he correct? As a history major, I would find it strange to write about a historical figure in the present tense unless I had discovered time travel. By the way, my story was told in the past tense as well, so when he made the leap to present tense I was surprised.
I would be happy to post his original summary with my corrections if you would like to read it. Thank you in advance. How do I start my summary introduction when I read 3 articles should I list the article's name for three of them? I want to know after I write my summary about am article then how do I start my discussion about that article in the following paragraphs.
Hi Hazel, I am very happy to have you share this information by giving students a link to my website or showing my website information in class. However, please do not violate my copyright by copying and printing or posting this online without having students go to my website to view it.
I cab offer my materials free to students and teachers because I make a small amount of money from advertising when people view my website. This information is so clear. May I share this information with my students in English ? The students have been assigned annotated bibliographies. Hi Jessica! I'm so glad this was helpful and congratulations for getting up the courage to finish your degree. I recently met a woman in her 60s who is going to graduate with her AA degree this month and is planning to keep on going!
I have lot of other articles on different kinds of writing. If you type the kind of paper you are doing in Google and then add my name or Owlcation, you can find them. Thank you so much.
This was so helpful. I am back in school trying to finally finish my degree after decades. I have to write a summary of a Case study. Then I have to write my first paper after decades. You should keep the same name of items in the summary article that cannot be easily changed to a synonym. However, you should not keep the same structure of sentences. Actually, in a summary your sentences will only tell the broader picture not the details.
Therefore, your sentences should not match the original. You do not have the space to explain every point the author makes. You should also keep in mind that article summaries need to be written in your own words. Scholarly writing can use complex terminology to explain complicated ideas, which makes it difficult to understand and to summarize correctly.
In the face of difficult text, many students tend to use direct quotations, saving them the time and energy required to understand and reword it. The brevity must come from you, in your own words, which demonstrates that you understand the article. The paragraph below is an example of an introductory paragraph from a summary of an empirical article:. While the authors cited many scholars who have explored these relationships, they pointed out that most of these studies focused on unidirectional correlations over a short period of time.
Further they conducted a longitudinal study over a period of three years in order to determine whether there were changes in the strength or direction of these associations over time.
They predicted that sleep quality would correlate with measures of intrapersonal adjustment, friendship quality, and academic achievement; they further hypothesized that this correlation would be bidirectional: sleep quality would predict psychosocial measures and at the same time, psychosocial measures would predict sleep quality.
Academic Skills. Writing Article Summaries. Common Problems in Article Summaries The most common problem that students have when writing an article summary is that they misunderstand the goal of the assignment.
Read Carefully and Closely Your key to success in writing an article summary is your understanding of the article; therefore, it is essential to read carefully and closely.
Argumentative Articles As you read an argumentative article, consider the following questions: What is the topic? What is the research question?
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