Внеочередные парламентские выборы пройдут в Македонии

Внеочередные выборы в парламент пройдут в Македонии в воскресенье. За 123 депутатских кресла будут бороться 18 политических партий и коалиций. Фаворитом выборов считается коалиция Внутренняя македонская революционная организация – Демократическая партия македонского национального единства (ВМРО-ДПМНЕ) во главе с премьером Николой Груевским. Коалиция Груевского провела избирательную кампанию, обещая избирателям проведение различных реформ. Главные соперники ВМРО-ДПМНЕ из оппозиционного Социал-демократического союза в предвыборной кампании обвиняли правящую коалицию в непрозрачной работе, расходовании бюджетных средств на ненужные проекты. В стране зарегистрировано 1,835 миллиона избирателей. Голосование будет проходить с 7 до 19 часов, в стране будут открыты 2,976 тыс. избирательных участков. На выборы аккредитованы 235 наблюдателей от Бюро по демократическим институтам и правам человека (ОБСЕ), 47 наблюдателей от парламентской ассамблеи (OSCE), 20 наблюдателей от Еврокомиссии и 16 наблюдателей от Совета Европы. За выборами также будут следить 15 наблюдателей из России. (РИА "Новости")

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SECTION VI

SUMMARY MAKING.
ESSAY AND ABSTRACT WRITING

Post-graduate students sometimes need to write abstracts, essays and reports, make summaries of the texts they read. It is an important and regular part of their work. Research has shown that students, learners of English, find writing to be the most difficult thing they’ve got to do. To avoid possible errors, the learner is to follow certain rules and patterns. Below are recommendations for all types of formal writing.

SUMMARY WRITING

A summary is a restatement, in shortened form and in your own words, of the main ideas contained in a reading selection. It is best to prepare the summary from an outline. It will help you distinguish between generalizations and their supporting details, and make it easier for you to memorize main points in readings and to state them more easily.

In writing the summary it’s a good idea to begin with a reference to (if there is any) the following: the author and his or her qualifications, the publication and the date, the central idea and its importance, the author’s attitude and purpose in writing the selection. Keep а sense of proportion, write more about main points than about minor ones.

Be sure that the entire summary has а form of its own, with full sentences and with transitions (connections) between each point. Usually you do not need to include examples given in the selection unless they are important to the point being made.

Avoid quoting too much, use your own words as much as possible.

Don’t overload your sentences in order to pack in as much information as possible. Be sure you are clear in presenting opinions. Distinguish between the author’s point of view and that of аnу other person to whom hе or she refers. For the author’s development of ideas, you might use words like begins, continues, goes on to, concludes.If you refer to the author’s actual statements, you might use verbs like says, states, discusses, mentions, argues. The verbs, however, should bе in the same tense, either all present or all past. (The present tense is more usual.)

Do not introduce your ideas or your attitudes or interpretation, into а summary. Your ideas will bе added later only if you are asked to comment on, or to react to, what the author has said.

List of Expressions Used for Summary Writing

1. The article (text) is headlined ...

The title of the text (article) under consideration ...

The headline of the article (text) (I have read) is ...

2. The author of the article (text) is ...

The article (text) is written by ..

3. It is (was) published in ...

It is (was) printed in ...

4. The article is intended for …

5. The main idea of the article (text) is ...

The article (text) is about...

As the title implies the text (article) describes ...