week 2: making a good summary

1.       What are the features of an academic summary? Name at least four features.

-          Using your own words

-          Organizing the main points

-          Citing sources

-          Retain key words from the passage

2.       Which sentence of the summary is the most important? Why?

The first sentence. Because you can find the title, author and main idea in the sentence.

3.       What are descriptive terms? Name four examples of such terms.

They describe the tone of the paper.

-          Underprepared

-          Sporadically

-          Low

-          limited

4.       What may await you if you borrow someone's ideas without citing ?

Bad marks

5.       What is meant through "work as an internal investigator?"

It means to investigate the text and summarize it yourself.