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Summarizing

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Summarizing is a condensation or a shortened version of a text. Summarizing helps to capture the idea (key) of another author for fewer words than the original.  There are two type of summary. 1. One-sentence summary Often used in academic writing as a way to introduce the reader to a source and its author's central idea or thesis statement. It is where the central idea placed into.  2. Informative summary. Expressed the original author's main ideas, main supporting details, data and arguments. It is incorporated into longer work.  Characteristics of Good Summary 1. Appropriate length 2. Uses paraphrase 3. Include main ideas 4. Proper citation Simply about how to summarize a text 1. Read article carefully 2. Write one very broad thesis statement 3. Identify the main points of the article 4. Write the first draft of the summary 5. Rewrite your summary. 

Quoting

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I'm sure, everybody ever put the quotes in their life whether in diary, the status in social networking, on the wall and etc. Quoting is phrase that you get from someone, usually authors. An academic research paper are stronger through the use of quotations when we need to cite a key sentence which become source of material to  strengthen argument through another writer's work. When saying of putting the quote in our report, we need to know when to quote and when are not suitable to quote as quoting from someone who have been discover the sentence by their own effort need to be credit or else, we will be accused from plagiarist the phrase. In source citation, we always meet with the author's name, year and also, the page of where the phrase have been take. Some of that, we see the bracket after the citation. If the text was quoted in another sources, we need to put the word, 'cited in'. .......................................................................