ABSTRACT
Summarising is a common activity in everyday life. It is used to describe the main features of the subject.
Write a short description of one of the topics below in no more than 20 words.
(a) A book you have enjoyed
(b) A town or city you know well
(c) A film you have recently watched
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Summarising and paraphrasing are normally used together in essay writing. Summarising aims to reduce information to a suitable length, allowing the writer to condense lengthy sources into a concise form, while paraphrasing means changing the wording of a text so that it is significantly different from the original source, without changing the meaning. Both are needed to avoid the risk of plagiarism, and this unit practises them separately and jointly.
