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Writing summaries and using citations_v2024

The document provides guidance on writing theoretical backgrounds and summarizing texts, emphasizing the importance of proper citation and presenting original ideas accurately. It outlines the process of summarizing, including the need to link new information to existing knowledge and to maintain the original meaning of the text. Additionally, it highlights the distinction between summarizing and expressing personal opinions, as well as the necessity of citing sources to avoid plagiarism.

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Writing summaries and using citations_v2024

The document provides guidance on writing theoretical backgrounds and summarizing texts, emphasizing the importance of proper citation and presenting original ideas accurately. It outlines the process of summarizing, including the need to link new information to existing knowledge and to maintain the original meaning of the text. Additionally, it highlights the distinction between summarizing and expressing personal opinions, as well as the necessity of citing sources to avoid plagiarism.

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Writing

the theoretical background/


framework/context
for your reports

Summarizing and making


summaries
Reminders & Some terminology

a sentence

Use in-text and end-text


citations correctly!

a paragraph
Decide: True or false?

1. A summary can be done ONLY based on written texts?

2. When summarizing, you don’t have to care about the person who wrote the
original text?

3. Summarized text is a collection of the best sentences in the original text?

4. You can summarize only one text in each paragraph?


To summarize
(a part of your report writing
process)

• When you summarize, you present


someone else’s ideas (spoken or written) in
your own words.

• You do this when debating, writing reports/


texts, and giving presentations

• The new information you have about your


project or research must be linked to the
information that already exists.
• In fact-based texts you always inform the reader,
who you are summarizing in your text.
• That is, you tell who originally wrote/ said/
Tell the researched the things you mention, too.
information
source/ a • If you summarize only one source material in your
summary, you can present the source already in
reference you Introduction paragraph.
summarize (cite) in
your text! • If you have many source materials, you have to
mark the source directly/ as close as possible there
in your text where you summarize each one.
A summary – the facts based on what you have
learned and studied, presented as they are – not
altered to favour your arguments.

• The original text (written or spoken) is


presented summed up
• without changing the meaning &
perspective of the original text
• without excluding any main points

• Express the main points of the original text


in your own words (copy ideas, not the text)

• You can change the presenting order of the


main points summarized.
Please note!

In general, your own ideas and opinions


shouldn’t be expressed in summaries.

IF HOWEVER NEEDED, they can be included


as separate comments that are clearly stated
to be your personal comments, and not from
the summarized text.
Work with a
partner & decide:

What would you do in the


following situations:
Would you use citation or not?

= would you mention/ mark down


where you got the information
from?

Give reasons!
Would you use citation or not?

2. You use some information


you read in an article 3. You mention in the report
1. You describe your
published in the magazine that the most of the
experiences during your
called Journal of Additive engineering students belong
Internship 1 in your report.
Manufacturing, but you don’t to the student union.
make any direct quotations.

5. You are writing a report on


4. You want to start your sensors used in robots and
essay with a real-life story you find a perfect description
which was told you by a guest of it on Internet. You want to
speaker from Nokia Ltd. use it as such and not to
change a word of it.
Using citation
= recognizing the copyrights
= avoiding plagiarism
= being a professional

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