Chapter 4: Summarizing the Work of Others

Student Learning Goals

In this chapter, you will:

  • Understand the role of summarizing in academic writing
  • Adopt effective strategies for identifying and restating the key ideas of a piece of writing
  • Apply paraphrasing, direct quoting and summarizing to your writing to suit your context and purpose
  • Use a discipline-appropriate format (APA) for citing ideas and quotations

 

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