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Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters. Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster.

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Writing a Summary or Précis

Paraphrase, Summary, and Précis
This page offers a brief discussion of each skill.

Process for Writing a Summary
This list emphasizes discovering the writer's purpose before writing a summary.

Summarizing
This interactive lesson makes an excellent introduction to this skill because it focuses more on reading than on writing. It is designed for adult learners and will work with many age levels.

Teaching kids how to summarize
In this forum teachers share strategies they have used to teach summary writing.



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This page updated March 26, 2009.