Academic Writing for International Students of Business

(Frankie) #1

 See Unit 1.5 Finding Key Points and Note-making


 (b) Complete the notes of the key points below.


(i) Falling levels of fertility have generally been found __.


(ii) In some, number of children born __.


(iii) Two results: smaller populations and ___.


(iv) Recent research claims that ____.


(v) Comparison of HDI (human development index: ____ )
with fertility found that in most highly rated (+0.9) countries,
__.


 (c) Join the notes together and expand them to make the final summary. Check that
the meaning is clear and no important points have been left out. Find a suitable title.


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Title: __________________________________________________________________________

This summary is about 35% of the original length, but it could be summarised further.


 (d) Summarise the summary in no more than 20 words.

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