ENGL 112 Chapter : Ch 4 - Summary
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Need to examine citation in order to understand summary. Summarizing bringing to the page the voices you read. Noting what we predict should be remembered in preparation for writing. By doing just this, we might miss an opportunity to get a better picture of the original and eliminate details. Abstraction cutting across the high levels of generality. : prohibition a word for an idea or concept cannot touch but only experience being prohibited from doing something. Breaking down a paragraph: general level less general level more specific level. Create a diagram to trace the shifts in levels of generality. Tree diagram deliberately ignores the process of the passage, and just shows the overall organization of generality and detail. Using gist and levels of generality to write summary. The summary should: attribute statements as originating with another writer, characterizes the action of the original, describes the development of the discussion. Including select details allows a reader to understand the abstractions.
