SUMMARY WRITING

NITISH KUMAR JITENDRA PAL

22M0597
Summary Writing: For General and Technical Audience

 Abstract writing consist of introduction, literature, problem, method, results,

implication parts which is generally the second thing to read after the title.
 Normally the nature of paper can be understood by the sentences or word for
eg. One sentence can be used as main result or general problem.
 Accessible Science writing will comprise of clarity which mean logical
sequence should be there and significance to current society.
 Vigour tells us enthusiasm of the writer and hard work he or she puts for
writing the paper.
 Human element part consists of putting own experience to the paper.
 Most important part of any article is first I.e., starting and ending.
Formal Writing/Technical Writing:
 Technical writing is the process of writing and sharing information in a
professional manner consists of proposals, papers, thesis and journal articles.
 Structure of the paper should have introduction, body and conclusion part and
it must be easy to read and understand.
 Using the order of method, result, discussion, introduction, title and abstract
order will help to write the paper having maximum clarity and consistency.
 Method part must be described in sufficient detail that they can be
reproduced.
 Using table and figures will helps to understand the result and discussion
parts should be separately written.
 In introduction parts never write results obtained from study.
The English Language
 Present tense will shows the action occurring at the time of main verb
whereas past tense will refer to the action already happened before the
action of main verb.
 Verb should be used as singular or plural depending on the singular subject or
plural subject.
 As the subject and verbs are the core of the sentences it is important to have
proper relationships between them.
 Passive voice can be used where actor is not important or unknown or
receiver of the action need to be emphasized.
 Apostrophe used to show possessive case, colon used for separating force,
semicolon for separating coordinate clauses.
 Often misused words should be avoided like accept or except, then or than,
there or their etc.