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2) It’s necessary to follow the main ideas of the original.
3) It’s necessary to find some extra information about this problem.
The compression can be done in two ways.
The first one is a process of diminishing the quantity of the original information.
The second one is a process of keeping information completely.
The first type of compression is divided into two variants: 1) The omission of details;
2) The generalization of the rest.
The second type of compression is divided into two types as well.
The first one is a combination.
A combination is a way of organizing the text when two or more sentences are
combined in one short construction where the same components are used once.
E.g. 1. It takes only one number to describe a scalar quantity. It takes several numbers
to describe a scalar quantity. It takes several numbers to describe a vector quantity. It
takes only one number to describe a scalar quantity and several – a vector one.
The second one is a substitution.
A substitution is a way of organizing the text when a part of the text is substituted by
shorter one keeping the minimum of information of the original.
E.g. 1. He made up his mind to start the construction of another device. He decided to
start…
2. The methods of multiplication of fractions in algebra are identical with those in
arithmetics.
Compression of the original text is the first step of writing summaries.
The next one is making a logical plan of the text. A person looks through the text and
finds the most important sentences. It’s also necessary to pay attention to the
language of writing summaries. A mention should be made about key-patterns
usually used while writing them. They perform different functions. The key-patterns
or speech models (stereotypes) make process of communication simpler, help not to
waste translator’s time and to organize his ideas better.
There is a classification of key-patterns according to their tasks. It’s built on the basis
of notions. Usually there is a general notion and a lot of notions connected to them.
Key-patterns for writing summaries:
The article deals with . . .
As the title implies… the article describes …
The paper is concerned with…
It is known that…
It should be noted that…
The fact that… is stressed.
A mention should be made…
It is spoken in detail about…
It is reported that
The text gives valuable information on…
Much attention is given to…
It is shown that…