Academic Writing

Reporting – paraphrase, summary & synthesis

Exercises

Writing

Select and summarise

1. Encounter groups

2. School and life

3. Helping black teenagers to read

4. Violence

5. The Clark-Trimble experiments

6. Gun control

7. Freedom and selfishness

8. Teaching speech

9. Received pronunciation

10. How children fail

Summary

10. The new music

11. Lie detector

12. Dilemma of the working mother

13. Rescue archaeology in Scotland

14. The causes of conflict

15. Summerhill education and standard education

16. Hypnosis

17. The marriages that Britain splits up

18. Nightmare in a California jail

19. Violence

20. How the west was lost

21. Schoolbooks and the female stereotype

22. A séance

23.Goodbye to the cane

24. Grammar schools

Synthesis

25. The biggest monster in the world

26. The number of languages in the world

27. Globalisation

28. The importance of non-verbal communication

29. Water problems

30. Oil and the future

31. Culture shock

32. Population

33. Why people work

34. Crime

35. Food problems

36. The future

37. Memory

Text Reconstruction

Paraphrase/Summary

1. Amphibia.

2. Ethologists

3. Joining metals

4. Population spread

5. Sex-linked roles

6. Attitudes to learning

7. Acquiring new knowledge

8. Princess shocks Norwegians

9. The way I see it

10. Safety in the home

11. Cut your losses

12. Garlic cure supported

13. Democratic Socialism

14. Food

15. Work

16. Water

17. Sight