summary
What summary means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Selecting the most important points across the whole passage, including opening and closing sections, and condensing them in your own words while keeping the writer's meaning.
A brief, concise statement of the main points of a text, written in your own words.
Topics that use summary
- Subject Content - Scope of Study (Eduqas GCSE)
- Component 2: Non-fiction and Transactional Writing - 2.1 Reading (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accurate use of linguistic and literary terminology
- Audience and purpose
- Bias and misuse of evidence
- Synthesis
- Active listening
- Adapting register to audience and context
- Analysis of language, form and structure across texts
- Anecdote
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