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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Summarising - helpful for your Inquiry research

I know that some of you find it really tricky when you find a book or a website on your topic, but then you realise that you can't copy everything out - you need to sk yourself the following questions:
- What is this article about?
- What are the main points/ideas in this article?
- What examples does the author use to support these main ideas?

When I summarise I often use a highlighter or underlining to identify the main points so that I can easily find them once I have finished reading it.

Use one of these graphic organisers below to summarise your article:



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