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Keys to Literacy: How to Write a Summary
Learn the seven steps to writing a summary of an informational text. Includes a summary template and completed examples.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Summary: Planning Your Essay
This reference provides a summary of eight steps to follow when planning to write an essay.
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Financial Analysis Paper
This article by Gerald Hanks focuses on what is involved in a financial analysis report which is used to determine if a company can deliver a solid return on investment.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Writing Strong Conclusions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides tips to writing a strong conclusion to an essay. The article discusses incorporating an anecdote, a basic summary, a startling summary, famous ideas, and/or hints to...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Michael Best: Assignment #3: An Explication
This is an assignment to write a detailed 850-word explication over one of two passages in Shakespeare's Othello. In the assignment, he explains what an explication is and is not and how to go about writing one. He also explains exactly...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Labor Day Address:barack Obama Speech [Pdf]
"Labor Day Address: Barack Obama Speech" is a one page, campaign speech by Barack Obama given on August 24, 2008, in Billings, Montana. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
Yale University
Ynhti: The Humor of America, Ruth Schwartz
This site includes a summary of these lesson plans about humor, and a narrative on humor in writing to precede them. Discusses writings by Benjamin Franklin.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Summarizing by Text Messaging Shakespeare
This is a lesson in how to summarize a play by William Shakespeare, in this case Romeo and Juliet, by writing a 140-character text message for each selection that students are assigned to read. The text messages are sent to a website,...
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: Paraphrase, Summary, Description: Paraphrase
Information and examples for how to paraphrase a statement.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Barnaby Rudge (Full Text)
This site provides the full text to Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge." A brief summary is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Bleak House (Full Text)
This site provides the full text of Dickens' "Bleak House." A brief summary is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Martin Chuzzlewit (Full Text)
This site contains the full text of Dickens' novel "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit." A brief summary is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Little Dorrit (Full Text)
This site provides the full text of Dickens' novel "Little Dorrit." A brief summary is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Old Curiosity Shop (Full Text)
This site provides the full text of Dickens's novel "The Old Curiosity Shop." A brief summary is also included.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Our Mutual Friend (Full Text)
This Bibliomania website provides the full text of Dickens's last complete novel Our Mutual Friend. A brief summary of the novel is also included.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Julius Caesar Analysis: Literary Devices in Julius Caesar
A discussion of the literary devices used by Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Each device is linked to additional pages with more detailed information and examples.
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Cleveland State University: Introductions & Conclusions
Briefly explains how the introduction and the conclusion work together. Then gives bulleted lists dealing with the introduction and conclusion separately. The conclusion list explains how to make a conclusion go beyond a mere summary...
Curated OER
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
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Australian National University: Marxism: Socialism From Below
Fairly in-depth summary of the theory of capitalism that Marx proposed. Includes historical background of the time when he was writing these ideas. This is chapter 4 of a textbook.
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