What is the passage about
Apart from the guiding questions provided in the passage, below are some steps to make a good summary:
- Eliminate non-vital information.
- Join sentences with related ideas.
- Re-organize ideas to improve sentence fluency.
Taking these into consideration, here is an example summary from the passage taken from History and Geography 7, Unit 6.
Archaeologists discovered that people came to the North American continent long ago possibly by crossing fifty-six miles between Asia and Alaska. While the date and details of their trip remain unknown, as nomads, they migrated during the spring and summer in search of food for their herds and camped during the winter. Eventually, they settled from the east coast to the tip of South America. Artifacts found from this era were used for hunting animals to get food and clothing.
<span> it's B. repeating key words for emphasis
because it repeats keywords and phrases and you want to identify your most important points.
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<span>It's divided into four parts:
1) a preamble (beginning, announces the reason for the document)
2) declaration of people's
rights and relationship to the government
3) a list of King George's crimes
4) conclusion</span>
Jefferson believes that all men are free and have the right
to make their own decisions. This was
how Jefferson gave weight to his views when he helped create the Declaration of
Independence which inspired the colonies to be free of British rule in 1776.
