Don’t feel that you must reproduce the author’s exact progression of thought. Omit ideas that are not really central to the text.Then, write a sentence or two to cover the key ideas in each section. Divide the article into sections if it isn’t done in the published form. When summarizing a longer article, try to see how the various stages in the explanation or argument are built up in groups of related paragraphs.Instead, it may be gradually developed throughout the piece or it may become fully apparent only at the end. This is the idea that runs through the entire text–the one you’d mention if someone asked you: “What is this piece/article about?” Unlike student essays, the main idea in a primary document or an academic article may not be stated in one location at the beginning. The first sentence or two of your summary should contain the author’s thesis, or central concept, stated in your own words.Include the title and identify the author in your first sentence.Here are some methods for summarizing:First, prior to skimming, use some of the previewing techniques. You must also make decisions about which concepts to leave in and which to omit, taking into consideration your purposes in summarizing and also your view of what is important in this text. When you summarize, you cannot rely on the language the author has used to develop his or her points, and you must find a way to give an overview of these points without your own sentences becoming too general. A summary has two aims: (1) to reproduce the overarching ideas in a text, identifying the general concepts that run through the entire piece, and (2) to express these overarching ideas using precise, specific language. You won’t find him here.Summarizing a text, or distilling its essential concepts into a paragraph or two, is a useful study tool as well as good writing practice.
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New home defects must be identified by specific building code citations that do not lend themselves to abbreviation or curtailment.įurther, if all of the issues are already contained within a written report, exactly what is the purpose of reiterating these in the very same document?įinally, if you find yourself terminally ensconced in one of the generations needing helicopter-parenting after leaving home, do us all a favor and find an inspector who will write you a flowery, Reader’s Digest version of a real inspection report and hand you those rose-colored glasses to boot. With one of these in hand a builder can easily deflect any supposed defects found by simply arguing around the brevity of the summary statements.
Home builders are also fond of summary reports. Care to definitively state when your next flat tire will occur? Which tire will it be? What will be the exact cause of the flat? Good luck with that. This sort of non-thinking requires not only the ability to predict the future, but also the ability to predict the timing of future failure events. Additionally, listing defects in an attempt to prioritize their importance is impossible. It is often the case that the buyer will simply refer to the summary without reading the entire report, thus missing much of the nuance and most of the significance of the whole document. My errors and omissions insurance carrier strictly prohibits summary reports, as they should. Though they make the lion’s share of profit from the transaction – 1.5% to 6% of the sales price on a $300K house is $4500 – $18,000 – as opposed to the average inspection fee of around $600, they avoid doing anything that resembles actual work.
The summary report also lends itself to becoming a repair list for the agent to present to the seller during a resale transaction. With the report dumbed-down and truncated, the agent has an easier time of dealing with the profusion of property defects found on every house by all but the agents’ pet inspectors.Ģ. Instead of performing their duty of due diligence by actually reading the report, they want someone to predigest it and feed it back to them as pabulum. Who can blame them? So then, when confronted with one of my 100-page home inspection reports, they proceed to wilt. The natural tendency for most buyers is to avoid reading too much of the mountains of paperwork produced during a real estate transaction. The benefits include, but are not limited to:ġ. Summary reports benefit mostly only the real estate agents by allowing them to better control the sellers, buyers and inspectors in property re-sales. One of these is the summary inspection report. The Texas Real Estate Commission and its broker and agent minions foist numerous counterproductive ideas upon the home-buying public every chance they get. I often get requests for summary reports to be attached to my inspection reports.
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