Golden Rules of Summary Writing 2

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Golden Rules of Summary Writing 2

• Rule 1 The more you manage to avoid the original
  wording the higher your mark for own words will
  be.
• Rule 2 Avoid lifting lines or whole stretches of
  text from the passage. Use your own words as far
  as possible.
• Rule 3 Isolate your main errors. Read through
  your work to check for errors.

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Passage Safari Parks
In some parts of Europe, special parks called
safari parks have been set up. Here, small herds
of game and troops of monkeys can move about
freely, although serious drawbacks have emerged.
Some of these animals are made ill by exhaust
fumes from visitors cars, and tropical animals,
which do not belong in Europes northern climate,
may suffer through not having suitable winter
quarters. For all their faults, zoos and safari
parks are a lifeline to nature, a slender thread
that leads us to an increasing interest in living
things.
Rubric Select the ways in which Man has
mistreated and misrepresented animals.
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Passage Safari Parks

• Identify the two content points
• Some of the animals in safari parks are made ill
  by fumes from visitors cars.
• Tropical animals which do not belong in Europes
  northern climate may suffer through not having
  suitable winter quarters.
• Using own words
• Pollution from the exhausts of the visitors cars
  causes sickness among the safari park animals.
• Animals from hot countries are unable to adapt to
  the cold winters and also suffer.

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Note on using own words

• You do not have to substitute all the words in
  the passage.
• Introduction to the comprehension paper requires
  you to
• Summarise a selected area of text, reproducing
  facts and ideas that follow the direction of the
  question, using your own words as far as possible
  in a piece of well-constructed continuous prose.
• Hence, you are not expected to avoid words like
  animals, tourists and safari.
• What you must do is to avoid lifting whole entire
  lines or whole stretches of text.

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Use of English

• Mechanical Accuracy
• Write without making errors of grammar, spelling
  or punctuation.
• Sentence Structure Ability to write in sentences
  and to vary their types.
• Organization and LinkingGood organization and
  linking produce a fluent piece of writing.

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Common Linguistic Errors

• Subject Verb Agreement / Concord
• E.g. New hotels creates employment
• Wrong verb forms
• E.g. Safari parks had being set up
• Omission or misuse of prepositions
• E.g. Animals do not belong Europes climate
  animals on safari parks

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Sentence Structures
Read the following section to be summarised and
isolate the 3 content points. Animals came to be
used for entertainment, often of a degrading
nature. Travelling showmen included performing
monkeys and dancing bears in their displays,
making these animals look foolish. Circuses
attracted crowds curious to see animals specially
trained to entertain them with their tricks.
Audiences felt a satisfying glow of superiority
as they witnessed their antics, insensitive to
the humiliation the creatures suffered.
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Example 1
In relatively recent times, Man mistreated
animals, using them for entertainment. He made
animals look foolish. He also humiliated them.
(20 words)
Example 2
In relatively recent times, Man mistreated
animals, using them for entertainment, which made
them look foolish and humiliated them. (19 words)
Example 3
In relatively recent times, Man mistreated
animals, using them for entertainment, making
them look foolish and humiliating them. (18 words)
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