EDUCATION Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pathos, Rhetorical Question
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Through summary, you can identify the main idea and the important details in the text. When doing a summary, you need to remember the following points. Identify the main idea or topic: take note of the tone of the article/text, write your summary in your own words, use complete sentences with good transition words, be objective. Identify certain notions or arguments that seem to be repeated throughout. > your goal is to identify the opinions in the article. An opinion is an expression of a person"s feelings that cannot be proven. Opinions can be based on facts or emotions and sometimes they are meant to deliberately mislead others. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the author"s purpose and choice of language. Writers may not say anything as obvious as, i think , i feel or in my opinion to state that opinions are following facts, but most writers have a point of view.