To write a really good summary, a writer must play a "believing game ", which suspends his own belief for a time and put him in the shoes of someone else. Otherwise, a writer might produce a summary with his own unfair presumption instead of what really expressed in the original author's view. ... A talk which presented points were connected by list of conjunction "first,"" "then," " "in addition," and" "also,"" failed to focus the most crucial point of the talk and quickly drew attention of audience away. ... And again, remember the important rules: good summary means playing the belie...

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To give more clarity of what I was going to write, I gave a summary of the chapter. What my professor always stresses is the summary of our papers should only be no more of a quarter of the essay, followed by a majority of our response. This was exactly what I did; I provided a summary of the book and parts that interested me. ... I gave a summary of a chapter from the book that supporting why it did not work favorably, then discussed how to avoid those types of mistakes. ... I wrote "this 'white space' helped officers take a much calmer approach by slowing the situation down a...

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BRIEF SUMMARY Explain where this piece fits into the overall narrative. ... Clarity Your summary for the first component should be clear and concise, covering the most important events but leaving out details that are not relevant to your selected passage. ... You can find a quick guide to the Chicago style here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html Note that if you use web sources, please make sure that they are reliable and trustworthy ones! ...

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Here are some examples of how vocabulary changes in each level of use: Formal Informal Popular comprehend understand get it intoxicated drunk wasted exhausted tired done dejected sad bummed A major problem with Popular English is that slang changes quickly. ... Another participant, in his early 20s, stated that for his generation the printed word really wasn't very effective anymore, and that multimedia was a quicker way to share information. ... For a concise summary I will rely on the words of Noam Chomsky; "When we study human language we are approaching what some m...

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Literature links all lives together across the globe simply through a story. This story is about pain, love, family; it's the idea that people can express themselves though black ink on paper. Growing up, I loved to read. I have read everything from every golden book as a kid to every Mortal Instrum...

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If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. Traditions, values, speech patterns, and even favorite foods bind them together in a way that "outsiders"" may find hard to understand. Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds up...

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