determine the essential ideas in a book,article, book chapter; an article or parts of an article. These essential ideas include the gist or main idea, useful information, or key words or phrases that help you meet your reading purpose. Summarizing is generally done after reading. However, it can be done as well while reading a text. Objective: Summarize the content of an academic text Summarizing is often used to determine the essential ideas in a book, article, book chapter; an article or parts of an article. These essential ideas include the gist or main idea, useful information, or key words or phrases that help you meet your reading purpose. Summarizing is generally done after reading. However, it can be done as well while reading a text. Summarizing is a skill because it helps you: Deepen your understanding of the text Learn to identify relevant information or key ideas Combine details or examples that support the main idea/s Concentrate on the gist or main idea and key words presented in the text; and Capture the key ideas in the text and put them together clearly and concisely. What is not summarizing? You are not summarizing when you: Write down everything
Write down ideas from the text
word-for-word Write down incoherent and irrelevant ideas; Write down ideas that are not stated in the text; or Write down a summary that has the same length or is longer than the text. Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not. __1. Sean copied everything from the book. __2. Thomas extracted the key ideas in the text. __3.Carmela concentrated on the important details. __4. Anita looked for keywords and phrases. __5. Jenna simplified ideas. ___6. Rona revised the main idea. ___7. To add more information, Alessa added her analysis and comments to the ideas of the author. ___8. Maria wrote down the general and specific ideas of the text. ___9. Sean added some of his related research to the information presented in the text. ___10. Lalaine extended the message of the text and included some of her interpretations. The teacher says, “Suppose you told your friend that you just watched a great film and your friend asks what the story is. What would you do? Would you tell the story as it is from the opening scene to the end credits or would you simply talk about the essential parts of the movie? You’ll probably agree that the latter is the more practical choice and you are correct. More often than not, the gist or the most significant or important part is what is given out to provide a background, not only in talking about movie plots but also in writing academic and professional papers.” The teacher explains the following: -Summarizing is often used to determine the essential ideas in a book, article, book chapter; an article or parts of an article. These essential ideas include the gist or main idea, useful information, or key words or phrases that help you meet your reading purpose. Summarizing is generally done after reading. However, it can be done as well while reading a text. Summarizing is a skill because it helps you: Deepen your understanding of the text Learn to identify relevant information or key ideas Combine details or examples that support the main idea/s Concentrate on the gist or main idea and key words presented in the text; and Capture the key ideas in the text and put them together clearly and concisely. What is not summarizing? You are not summarizing when you Write down everything Write down ideas from the text word-for-word Write down incoherent and irrelevant ideas; Write down ideas that are not stated in the text; or Write down a summary that has the same length or is longer than the srcinal text. Guidelines in Summarizing 1. Clarify your purpose before you read. 2. Read a text and understand the meaning. Do not stop reading until you understand the message conveyed by the author. Locate the gist or main idea of the text, which can usually be found either at the beginning, in the middle, or in the end. 3. Select and underline or circle the key ideas and phrases while reading: another strategy is to annotate the text. 4. Write all the key ideas and phrases are in bullets. 5. Identify the connections of key ideas using a concept map. 6. List your ideas in sentences. 7. Combine sentences in a paragraph. Use appropriate cohesive devices. 8. Ensure that you do not copy a single sentence from the srcinal text. 9. Refrain from adding comments about the text. 10. Edit the draft of your summary. 11. Compare your output with the scribal text. 12. Record the details of the scribal text. 13. Format your summary properly. Use different formats to show variety in writing.