Writing Summaries (Descriptive and Evaluative)

Writing Summaries (Descriptive & Evaluative)
Ho’omana Nathan Horton and Paul Sims

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Reading and understanding texts

2.1. Reading the text and getting started

2.2. Strategies for successful reading
3. The purpose of summaries
4. Types of summary

4.1. When are these used?

4.2. Connecting audience and purpose
5. The moves of writing summaries

5.1. Organization

5.2. Including detail

5.3. Language moves
6. Avoiding plagiarism when writing summaries

6.1. When could plagiarism occur in a summary?

6.2. When do we need to cite in a summary?
7. Exercises and resources