How to handle: Summaries
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De Mylius, J. (2010). Hans Christian Andersen: A short biography
Retrieved 23 April 2010 from http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/liv/minibio/index_e.html.
(This reference to the website is performed according to the APA citation style)

"Hans Christian Andersen was a product of two towns, two social environments, two worlds and two ages. Both as a man and as a writer he thus continually developed and changed, but was also in constant dialogue with himself and even at times at war with himself. Thus his social rise provides the direct and indirect motif in many of his tales, novels and plays, both as a productive source in his search for a new and more comprehensive identity and as a source of perpetual and unresolved traumas" (de Mylius, 2010).
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As de Mylius states Hans Christian Andersen was a product of two towns, two social environments, two worlds and two ages. The social rise he experienced provided the direct and indirect motif in many of his tales, novels and plays, both as a productive source in his search for a new and more comprehensive identity and as a source of perpetual and unresolved traumas (de Mylius, 2010).
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This is plagiarism. Even though the original author is stated, the author of the summary copies some of the sentences from the de Mylius' text word-for-word. These sentences should have been treated as a quotation and put into quotation marks.
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2. Use
According to de Mylius there was an ongoing conflict in Hans Christian Andersen which derived from the big differences in his social background and his new rising social status. Therefore you can say that his social rise provides the direct and indirect motif in many of his tales, novels and plays and that it is a source of perpetual and unresolved traumas.
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This is plagiarism. Even though the original author is stated, the author of the summary copies some of the sentences from the de Mylius' text word-for-word. These sentences should have been treated as a quotation and put into quotation marks. Furthermore the author of the summary also failed to include an in-text citation.
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According to de Mylius there was an ongoing conflict in Hans Christian Andersen's life and work which derived from the big differences in his social background and his new rising social status. This conflict was a major issue in both the development of his identity and in his works (de Mylius, 2010).
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The summary is performed correctly: The author of the summary uses her/his own words to summarise the original text and the original author is stated. Furthermore the in-text citation gives sufficient information to make it possible to identify the original source in the corresponding bibliography.
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