• Writing a summary
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  • 27.11.2024
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Fate or Free Will - Sum­ma­ri­sing a non-​fictional text

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Read the article Fate vs. Free Will in Shake­speare's Romeo and Ju­liet on https://ow­l­ca­ti­on.com/hu­ma­nities/A-​pair-​of-​star-​crossd-​lovers-​take-​their-​life-​Does-​Fate-​Control-​Our-​Actions-​or-​Does-​Mans-​Free-​Will.
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Name the author's main the­sis: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Write an in­tro­duc­tion for your sum­ma­ry sta­ting author, year of pu­bli­ca­ti­on and where it was pu­blished. In­clu­de the author's main the­sis too. (No more than 2 sen­ten­ces!)
Lan­guage help:
  • The art­icle/ story/ re­port/... [title]

  • (was) writ­ten by ...

  • (was) pub­lished in (the year) ... on/ in ....

  • It de­scribes/ tells the story of/ ex­plains/ (deals with)/ ...

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Devide the text into units. Then, com­plete the table!

unit

lines

most im­portant point(s)

sup­port





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Write down a one-​sentence sum­ma­ry for each sense unit.
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In a se­pa­ra­te do­cu­men­te, re­for­mu­la­te your mini-​summaries into a con­nec­ted text. Add in­for­ma­ti­on where it is necess­a­ry to un­der­stand the author's main state­ments.

Re­mem­ber that sum­ma­ries are al­ways writ­ten in pre­sent tense!
Lan­guage help:
  • firstly / at first/ in the be­gin­ning/ ...

  • then/ next/ in the fol­low­ing/ ...

  • the au­thor con­tin­ues with ....

  • lastly/ fi­nally/ in the end/ ...

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Check and edit your text. Use the fol­lo­wing check-​list for help.
My sum­ma­ry...
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Check sum­ma­ries of your group mem­bers. Give feed­back based on the check-​list above.
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