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Teaching Students to Summarize: Applying Textlinguistics.
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Sherrard, Carol – System, 1989
The findings from research on written and oral summarization are discussed under three headings: summarizers' strategies, improving summarizers' performance, and the assessment of summary quality. Objective measures of summary quality used by researchers are described, and ways these measures could be adapted for use in higher education assessment…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Expressive Language, Higher Education