Professional Documents
Culture Documents
LECTURE 1:
KEY FEATURES OF SUMMARIES
&
KEY FEATURES OF TEXTS
TOPIC OUTLINE
Executive summary
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
What?
summarizes, or reviews the main points of, a longer
document or report for a reader that does not have time to
read the entire report.
analyzes and summarizes the most important points in the
paper or report,
and will often make a recommendation based on the
analysis.
https://www.umuc.edu/writingcenter/writingresources/exec_summaries.cfm
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SUMMARIES
Key features:
Acknowledges the original author/gives proper
citation
Contains only the most important information/
includes the main ideas
Paraphrases any information taken from the original
text
Is much shorter that the original writing
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Title
Heading
Table of content
Italics
Bold
Bulleted lists, index glossary graphic aids etc