Week 6: How to write a Summary

Question 1

summarize

Answer 1

to shorten someone’s work into the main idea and important details

Question 2

paraphrase

Answer 2

to reword in one’s own words (crediting the original source)

Question 3

attributive tag

Answer 3

** a signal phrase
a phrase that indicates who the original author is

Question 4

relevant

Answer 4

liên quan, thích hợp
necessary, essential

Question 5

sparingly

Answer 5

sài ít, tiết kiệm
in a limited way

Question 6

condensed

Answer 6

**cô đặc
shortened

Question 7

objective

Answer 7

** khách quan
without one’s own personal ideas

Question 8

concise

Answer 8

**ngắn gọn
to the point, brief

= to beat around the bush (idioms) ** go around, not go straight to the problem

Question 9

proofread

Answer 9

to do a final check for mistakes in a text

Question 10

annotate

Answer 10

**chú thích
to mark up or add notes to a document

Question 11

dense

Answer 11

adj.
- closely compacted in substance
“dense volcanic rock”

• INFORMAL (of a person) stupid
  “Am I being dense? I don’t quite understand”

Question 12

flip-flop

Answer 12

v. (use mostly in the media)
If you say that someone, especially a politician, flip-flops on a decision, you are critical of them because they change their decision, so that they do or think the opposite.

[mainly US, informal, disapproval]
He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues