WHAT IS SUMMARIZING?

As an important skill in critical reading,

summarizing is often used to determine
the essential ideas in a book, article, book
chapter, an article or parts of an article.
GUIDELINES IN SUMMARIZING
1) Clarify your purpose before you read.
2) Read the text and understand the meaning.
3) Select and underline or le the key ideas and
phrases while reading; another strategy is to
annotate the text.
4) Write all key ideas or phrases you identified
on the margins or on your notebook in a bullet or
outline form.
5) Without looking at the text, identify the
connections of these key ideas and phrases
using a concept map.
6) List your ideas in sentence form in a concept
map.
7) Combine the sentences into paragraph. Use
appropriate transitional devices to improve
cohesion.
8) Ensure that you do not copy a single
sentence from the original text.
9) Refrain from adding comments about the
text. Stick to the ideas it presents.
10) Edit the draft of your summary by
eliminating redundant ideas.
11) Compare your output with the
original text to ensure accuracy.
12) Record the details of the original
source. (author’s name, date of
publication, title, publisher, place of
publishing and URL, if online)
13) Format your summary properly.
FORMATS IN SUMMARIZING
1. Idea Heading Format
In this format, the summarized idea comes before the
action.
2. Author-Heading Format
In this format, the summarized idea comes after the citation.
3. Date Heading Format
In this format, the summarized idea comes after the date
w hen the material w as published.
In a one half crosswise, the students
will explain the following briefly.
1. For you, among the three formats
of summarizing, which do you think is
the most applicable of all academic
texts? Why?
2. Give three of the guidelines in
summarizing which you think is the
most important. Explain your answer.
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r e f i n e t h e c o n t e n t , wh i c h wi l l m a k e t h e l o g i c a l f r a m e wo r k r e l a t i ve l y c l e a r. I n o r d e r t o m a k e yo u
h a ve a m o r e i n t u i t i ve f e e l i n g o f t h e n u m b e r o f wo r d s , a n d f u r t h e r e a s y t o u s e , we h a ve s e t t h e
m a xi m u m t e xt , wh e n yo u e n t e r h e r e , i s o n t h e ve r g e o f t h e u p p e r l i m i t o f t h e c o n t ent o f t h e p a g e,
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I f yo u r c o n t e n t i s r e a l l y i m p o r t a n t a n d d i ff i c u l t t o s t r e a ml i n e , u s e s e g me n t a t i o n t o s i m p l y s o r t a n d
r e f i n e t h e c o n t e n t , wh i c h wi l l m a k e t h e l o g i c a l f r a m e wo r k r e l a t i ve l y c l e a r. I n o r d e r t o m a k e yo u
h a ve a m o r e i n t u i t i ve f e e l i n g o f t h e n u m b e r o f wo r d s , a n d f u r t h e r e a s y t o u s e , we h a ve s e t t h e
m a xi m u m t e xt , wh e n yo u e n t e r h e r e , i s o n t h e ve r g e o f t h e u p p e r l i m i t o f t h e c o n t e n t o f t h e p a g e ,
i f t h e r e i s m o r e c o n t e n t , p l e a s e r e d u c e t h e f o n t s i z e a s a p p r o p r i a te , b u t we d o n o t r e c o m me n d
t h a t yo u r t e xt f o n t s i z e i s l e s s t h a n 1 4 p o u n d s , p l e a s e b e s u r e t o p a y a t t e n t i o n .
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I f yo u r c o n t e n t i s r e a l l y i m p o r t a n t a n d
d i ff i c u l t t o s t r e a m l i n e , u s e s e g m e n t a ti o n
to simply sort and refine the content,
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h a ve a m o r e i n t u i t i ve f e e l i n g o f t h e
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u s e , we h a ve s e t t h e m a xi m u m t e xt ,
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of view as succinctly as possible.
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Your text has been concise and well-written, but the information is inextricabl y inextricable and
needs to be expressed in more words; but please refine the essence of your thought as much as
possible, and express your views appropriatel y, often with twice the result with half the effort.
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t h e e ff o r t .
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