Writing a summary



Writing a summary
•Include all the important ideas, data and conclusions.
•Follow the original organization where possible.
•Summarize rather than give a table of contents.
•Write sentences, not notes.

Writing a summary
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•Make sure to include the author and title of the work.
•Be concise: a summary should not be equal in length to the original text.
•If you must use the words of the author, cite them.
•Don't put your own opinions, ideas, or interpretations into the summary.

summary X description of the content X notes
•The first paragraph deals with the beginning of the EU.
•after WWII
–hope for peace
–ECSC
–cold war
–Treaty of Rome
•The hope for peace after WWII resulted in economic and political cooperation of the European
countries within the ECSC in 1950.