Mastering how to write an excerpt can turbocharge your academic writing.

After sifting through all the online databases and looking for papers, you’re often left with a daunting pile of references.

Some of these are dense giants, packed with complex ideas that seem impenetrable at first glance.

Fear not! In this article, I will show you how to efficiently break down those texts, pulling out the golden nuggets of information, arguments, and key passages essential for your own essay or thesis.

At the end of the article, I will provide you with a ready-to-use table template, which will help you navigate through your literature review and make your academic writing so much easier.

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00:00 Intro
00:51 #1 What Is an Excerpt?
01:44 #2 Why Should You Write an Excerpt?
01:50 #2.1 Overview
02:42 #2.2 Understanding
03:18 #2.3 Cataloguing
03:43 #3 Excerpting with a Table
05:20 #4 In 4 Steps to a Complete Excerpt
05:23 #4.1 Understand the Context
05:54 #4.2 Set Goals
06:52 #4.3 Write the Excerpt
07:54 #4.4 Summarize

The term “excerpt” originates from Latin and means “extract.” In a figurative sense, you are pulling all the important information from the text you wish to excerpt.

However, an excerpt is not limited to information alone. Depending on your intention, you can also extract argumentation patterns, specific linguistic features, or other elements you are looking for.

The goal is always the systematic simplification and summary of the original text.

You can write excerpts from factual texts, newspaper articles, and even Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. Typically, however, this technique is applied in the context of academic literature. For this reason, we will stick to this example in this tutorial.

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