The Structure of the English Language CXC Examination paper.

Definition

Summaries are basically the shortened forms of pieces of writing.

There are many guidelines with respect to the actual process.

Key points

Guidelines in Summary Writing

Avoid repitition
- sometimes information is repeated but phrased differently, be weary of this when summarizing.
Do not include examples
Do not include statistics

You are provided with three topics from which you choose one.

That's how we won the race.

Assignment

Paper One, June 2007, English A