To put it simply summarising is using your

To put it simply, summarising is using your own words to shorten a piece of text so it includes only the essential information. You are capturing the main points of what you have read. In order to summarise, you must read or watch closely the original source, and write the essence of the source without using words or phrases that are similar to the original.

The article is a front page feature story in the Herald Sun daily newspaper, which recounts a heated phone call exchange between US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The subject of the phone call was a controversial deal struck with the previous Obama administration, whereby 1250 asylum seekers would be resettled in the United States. Donald Trump was reportedly upset and angry at Turnbull, accusing him of trying to send the “next Boston bombers” to his country. The call became so heated that, according to unknown sources, Trump hung up on Turnbull denied this version of events, stating he had not been hung up on, and that they were “good friends”.

Similarities are likenesses or sameness. What are the points of similarity in your sources; what ideas/phrases/quotes bear a resemblance? Differences are unlikenesses. Where do the sources differ? What ideas are not the same?

Similarities Differences 1. Both are newspaper reports that detail a phone call between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull on the subject of a refugee resettlement deal. § The Herald Sun uses exaggerated and 2. Both articles report that the phone call was heated, angry and unpleasant § The Australian uses measured, formal 3. Both articles use similar quotes from Trump’s twitter that disparage the “dumb deal” § The Australian article is more concerned Both articles are concerned with diplomatic relations between the United States and Australia, and suggest that US is the more powerful partner in the relationship § The Herald Sun is more concerned with 4. over—the top language to engage the reader: “fresh crisis”, “ astonishing” leak, “bring of collapse”, “accused” language to interest its audience: “a divisive refugee deal”. with Turnbull and Australia’s response to the phone call, with a long direct quote from Turnbull Trump, with extended quotes from his tweets

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