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Summarizing
Writing out the idea.
Getting Started
Steps to Writing
Common Mistakes
Summary Checklist
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Common Mistakes
Misunderstanding of key concepts and ideas that stand in the way of understanding meaning.
Reading only parts of an article or reading it to quickly
Paraphrasing and presenting the abstract or conclusion as a summary
Picking whole sentences from the source text and stringing them together
Quoting whole sentences
New or unrelated ideas not present in source text are added to the summary
Failing to proofread the summary for clarity and completeness
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