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A summary question asks you to describe "the ways in which the author says tourism damages a hill town". How should you approach it?
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Answer
Read only for that: mark every sentence that names a way tourism damages the town, and ignore everything about its history, its scenery or the author's own visit however interesting. Then write those points in continuous prose in your own words within the word limit, in the order they appear.
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Explanation
Content marks are given for each relevant point, so an irrelevant sentence costs both space and marks.
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