The formal structure of school summaries.

Autor/in	Flottum, Kjersti
Titel	The formal structure of school summaries.
Quelle	(1987), 10 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	Mikroform; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Schriftliche Übung; Aufsatz; Text; Textgliederung; Textkohärenz; Textsorte; Verb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Französisch; Kontrastierung; Zusammenfassung
Abstract	A study compared text summaries produced by French high school students and those written by experts. The study's objective was to determine how language users distinguish the essential from the peripheral information, to describe the summarizing process, and to apply the macrostructure theory to the process of summarizing. The summarized texts and the summaries were compared by "sequences", or units constructed around a verb. All student summaries were based on a single original text, while each expert summary was based on a different text. Sequences were categorized as parallel, parallel-selective, selective, selective-generalizing, integrating, or commentary. Common traits of the student summaries were distinguished. Few differences between student and expert summaries were found, the most salient being the more common use of integrating sequences in expert summaries. The summarizing process is described thus: the summarizer selects some sequences that are kept more or less intact, deletes one or several sequences, sometimes generalizes, and sometimes comments. The sequence analysis is proposed as a basis for semantic analysis, as suggested by the notion of macrostructure.
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	1996_(CD)