Research Skills: Note-Taking and Summarizing
Practicing effective strategies for taking notes from informational texts and summarizing key points.
Key Questions
- Explain the benefits of using different note-taking methods for various texts.
- Compare and contrast summarizing with paraphrasing.
- Construct a concise summary of a multi-paragraph informational text.
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