Guides for writing good summary
1. Maintain a direct, objective style without resorting to overly simplistic sentences.
2. Begin with the writer's thesis and then present additional key points following the other of the original article.
3. Exclude all specific examples, illustrations, or background section 4. Combine main idea into fewer sentences than were used in the original article.
5. Select precise accurate verbs to show authors relationship to ideas.

Example of such verbs are "agues," "suggests," "posits," "asserts," "contents," etc.
Examples Sample article The quality of drinking water from six investigated commercial boreholes in Kano raises some health concerns. Lead and chromium were slightly above permissible limits at the Bomkpai sites. Most of the commercial boreholes studied were vulnerable to bacteriological contamination. The general poor hygienic conditions of the borehole sites, together with the lack of health/safety training and periodic medical examination of the commercial borehole equipment operators, constitute health hazard in Kano. It is difficult to confirm whether periodic quality checks are being carried out at the borehole sites by anybody or agency since no evidence, including past records, of such checks was found during the study. There is therefore a need for the State Government to regulate the commercial water boreholes in Kano. In addition, periodic water quality checks, at least biannually, should be made compulsory for commercial drinking water suppliers. Total words 140

From Amatobi D.A. (2016). An investigation of the quality of drinking water from commercial water boreholes in parts of Kano municipality in Northern Nigeria. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 03(08), 91.

Read the sample article above, slowly at least 3 times or until you understand what the writer is saying. Then answer the following questions:

1. Present one short quotation from the text.
2. Present one long quotation from the text
3. Write your own paraphrase version of the article - count number of words.
4. Write your own summary version of the article - count number of words​