Select the best summary of a speech. SPI 0601.2.8

Links verified on 5/30/2014

1. How to Write a Summary of a Speech - A summary can help clarify the essential elements of a speech in the quickest way possible and also help extrapolate its main points and essential arguments.
   
2. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing - defines each and then tells why and how to use each
3. Summarizing - lesson on learning to summarize
4. Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping -complete fishbone maps that highlight the main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text; lesson plan [This expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
5. Self Test: Identifying and Avoiding Plagiarism - excellent examples and tests of the right way to quote, paraphrase and summarize
6. Summary of a Speech -
7. Summarizing - interactive lesson and exercise
8. What is summarising? - UK site - understanding how to summarize (UK spelling used)

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