Slightly different approach to Ethan Bolker: I did something similar in my thesis, including the summary inside the document itself, towards the end, as a (literal) recapitulation.
% Maintain a nice little history block to add things into
\edef\recap{ }
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\recapAdd}[1]{\protected@edef\recap{\recap{}#1 }}
\makeatother
\newcommand{\recapAddEcho}[1]{{\textbf{#1}}\recapAdd{#1}}
\let\firstsentence\recapAddEcho
And then later on to print things out:
\section{Recapitulation and closing remarks} \label{recapitulation}
\recap
\bigskip
In between, use \firstsentence
to add things into the "recap" buffer.
\firstsentence{The diffusion of digital technologies (bla bla bla).}
You can use \recapAdd
in places where you want to add to the recap buffer, but for stylistic reasons you don't want to immediately echo the text back out:
\recapAdd{Theories of pedagogy can help us ``\emph{get to the root of
conditioning through practising repetitions}'' -- but they fail to model
the productive, explicating, way in which learning unfolds in online peer
production communities.} \textbf{Theories of pedagogy can help us ``\emph{get to the root of
conditioning through practising repetitions}'' \cite[p. 199]{sloterdijk2013change}
-- but they fail to model the productive, explicating, way in which learning
unfolds in online peer production communities.}
PS: Marian Petre was my internal examiner and I passed :-)
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to decrease your margins, that's about it. You may however want to include some of your most important references, but once again, that's more to do with the selection that the typesetting.that summarises one page of your thesis per line of page
, can you please rephrase?