Session 3

Question 1

What are difficulties when writing a summary?

Answer 1

1. All the information is relevant and important in one context (the original!)
2. What information is relevant and important in another context? (the summary)

Summaries have different purposes than the original texts.

Question 2

What are two common purposes of summary in academic texts?

Answer 2

1. To highlight one specific study in detail!
2. To provide examples for the state-of-the-art.

Question 3

Use chatgpt to create good sentence starters and place them on your cheat sheet.

Question 4

How can you combine multiple studies into one paragraph?

Answer 4

By asking:
1. What is the common phenomenon being studied? (Various researchers have explored…, etc.)
2. How have people studied it? (Conclude, connect, wrap up)