Writing a summary

Fate or Free Will - Summarising a non-fictional text

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.

Name the author's main thesis: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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)/ ...

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

unit

lines

most important point(s)

support

Write down a one-sentence summary for each sense unit.

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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