Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ337392
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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Summary Writing: A Topographical Study.
Sherrard, Carol
Written Communication, v3 n3 p324-43 Jul 1986
Examines summaries of expository text written by undergraduate students to discover the nature of text-to-summary mapping. Finds that simple omission and one-to-one mapping of text sentences into summary sentences were the most favored strategies. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Sentence Structure, Writing Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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