Question

Read the following article on Gertrude Elion. Then, read the summary that follows. You will notice that the summary is incorrectly written. Keeping in mind what you know about effective summaries and main idea, make three specific suggestions for improving this summary paragraph.

Important note: Do NOT write a summary. You will write three suggestions for improving this summary.




Student J. Doe's Summary

Gertrude Elion was born in 1918 in New York City. She went to school for many years and eventually won the Nobel prize. She was unable to obtain a graduate research position beca

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finnish plz

Answer 2

first of all, its incomplete.

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Student J. Doe's Summary

Gertrude Elion was born in 1918 in New York City. She went to school for many years and eventually won the Nobel prize. She was unable to obtain a graduate research position because she was a woman. She took a series of jobs, including lab assistant, chemistry and physics teacher in New York City high schools, and research chemist. She was a scientist who helped discover many important drugs that saved lives. Elion also discovered new ways to test drugs. She died in 1999, 16 years after she retired from Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories.

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see whats wrong with that you have to see what is wrong with the summary then explain what they could have done to make it better. @SiennaSurfer

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@SiennaSurfer are you there

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ya

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idk. i would need the original

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do you have blackboard

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if you do do you know how to get onto the same blackboard to where i am the leader of it

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@SiennaSurfer do you have blackboard

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y?

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So that i can share the whole story with you

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idk

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You should check

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this is my moms computer

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OH ok ask your mom

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ill help

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shes not here right now. shell be back in a few hrs

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ok @evilbrand97 please help