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Summary Writing

Summary Writing is a form of academic writing task in second or foreign language learning in which the writer reconstructs, in their own words and at a substantially reduced length, the main ideas and essential relations of one or more source texts without adding new information or personal evaluation.

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10.7K

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435

Authors

225

Institutions

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2017–2026

49

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Publications

208

Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills

John M. Swales, Christine B. Feak · College Composition and Communication · 1996 · 934 citations

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Comparison of Self-Questioning, Summarizing, and Notetaking-Review as Strategies for Learning From Lectures

Alison King · American Educational Research Journal · 1992 · 359 citations

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The use of paraphrase in summary writing: A comparison of L1 and L2 writers

Casey Keck · Journal of Second Language Writing · 2006 · 342 citations

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Textual Borrowing in Second-Language Writing

Ling Shi · Written Communication · 2004 · 320 citations

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Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences

Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, Tanya K. Rodrigue · Writing & Pedagogy · 2010 · 252 citations

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Authors

435

  1. EK
    Eileen Kintsch

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    5 publications · 501 citations

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  2. GY
    Guoxing Yu

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 188 citations

    4

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  3. LS
    Ling Shi

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    4 publications · 433 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. NI
    Norisma Idris

    University of Malaya, Malaysia

    4 publications · 68 citations

    4

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  5. WK
    Walter Kintsch

    University of Colorado System, United States

    4 publications · 210 citations

    4

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Institutions

225

  1. University of Malaya

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    227 citations

  2. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    154 citations

  3. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    188 citations

  4. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    176 citations

  5. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    267 citations

  6. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    236 citations

  7. Northern Arizona University

    Flagstaff, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    455 citations

  8. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    441 citations

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Venues

  1. Contemporary Educational Psychology

    CEP · 5 publications · 407 citations

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  2. Journal of Second Language Writing

    JSLW · 5 publications · 801 citations

    5

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  3. The Journal of Reading

    5 publications · 139 citations

    5

    h-index

  4. Journal of Educational Psychology

    4 publications · 193 citations

    4

    h-index

  5. Written Communication

    5 publications · 392 citations

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