An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition

Summary writing is a process of reducing the size and content of a text into a shorter version called summary. The production of the summary depends on the existing text which is different from other writings such as essay writing and report writing (Hidi & Anderson, 1986). However, it is imp...

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Main Authors: Norisma, Idris, Sapiyan, Baba, Rukaini, Abdullah
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Centre for Academic Information Services, UNIMAS 2014
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description Summary writing is a process of reducing the size and content of a text into a shorter version called summary. The production of the summary depends on the existing text which is different from other writings such as essay writing and report writing (Hidi & Anderson, 1986). However, it is important to have good summarization skills in order to determine what to include, what to eliminate, how to organize information and how to ensure that the summary retains the meaning of the original text. There are five basic rules that are essential to produce adequate summaries (Brown & Day, 1983):
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spelling unimas-11202024-04-03T02:03:32Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1120/ An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition Norisma, Idris Sapiyan, Baba Rukaini, Abdullah AC Collections. Series. Collected works Summary writing is a process of reducing the size and content of a text into a shorter version called summary. The production of the summary depends on the existing text which is different from other writings such as essay writing and report writing (Hidi & Anderson, 1986). However, it is important to have good summarization skills in order to determine what to include, what to eliminate, how to organize information and how to ensure that the summary retains the meaning of the original text. There are five basic rules that are essential to produce adequate summaries (Brown & Day, 1983): Centre for Academic Information Services, UNIMAS 2014-03-17 Working Paper NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1120/7/AN%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20STUDENTS%E2%80%99.pdf Norisma, Idris and Sapiyan, Baba and Rukaini, Abdullah (2014) An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition. [Working Paper]
spellingShingle AC Collections. Series. Collected works
Norisma, Idris
Sapiyan, Baba
Rukaini, Abdullah
An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title_full An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title_fullStr An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title_full_unstemmed An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title_short An analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
title_sort analysis of students’ summaries using summary sentence decomposition
topic AC Collections. Series. Collected works
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1120/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1120/7/AN%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20STUDENTS%E2%80%99.pdf