Summarizing a Text (Résumé)

Attributing the author's claims without quoting directly

A good résumé paraphrases rather than quotes, using reporting verbs like soutenir que, affirmer que, and suggérer que to attribute ideas to the author while staying in your own words — functioning exactly like English reporting verbs ('argues that,' 'claims that,' 'suggests that') in an English-language summary, so the skill transfers directly, just now applied to French vocabulary. Varying these reporting verbs, rather than repeating l'auteur dit que throughout, is part of what examiners look for in a strong résumé, just as varying 'the author says' is expected in an English summary.