TIPS FOR FINDING KEY FACTS
• TS LEFTOVERS. Use whatever didn’t fit on your topic sentence that you wanted to include (but lacked the space).
• PARAGRAPH SEEDS. If there are paragraphs, choose the most important idea in each paragraph.
• RECAP CONVERSATION. Imagine a conversation with someone (a friend, a grandma) who didn’t know about the topic, what would you want to include, and what would you want to leave out?
• AUTHOR’S USE OF SPACE. Look at the space dedicated to each idea by the author. If the author uses a lot of space in the source text talking about one aspect of the idea, then they are telling you that that part is important and should be included in the summary.
COMMON TOPIC SENTENCE MISTAKES
1) Neglecting to mention the Nobel Peace Prize
2) Not fully understanding the text (words like: compulsory, Jihad, etc) – look up words that you don’t understand
3) Misspellings – use the source text
4) Capitalization – Nobel Peace Prize
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