The passage discusses the importance of education in society. It argues that education teaches students how to learn independently and how to reason logically. It provides three key persuasive points. First, education teaches students how to learn, which is more important than specific knowledge, allowing them to learn anything needed as adults. Second, education teaches reasoning skills to avoid ignorance and analyze information critically. Third, strong reasoning allows people to evaluate claims empirically and logically, such as understanding links between behaviors and health outcomes through cause and effect. Overall, the passage advocates for the value of education in teaching lifelong learning skills and reasoned thinking.
The passage discusses the importance of education in society. It argues that education teaches students how to learn independently and how to reason logically. It provides three key persuasive points. First, education teaches students how to learn, which is more important than specific knowledge, allowing them to learn anything needed as adults. Second, education teaches reasoning skills to avoid ignorance and analyze information critically. Third, strong reasoning allows people to evaluate claims empirically and logically, such as understanding links between behaviors and health outcomes through cause and effect. Overall, the passage advocates for the value of education in teaching lifelong learning skills and reasoned thinking.
The passage discusses the importance of education in society. It argues that education teaches students how to learn independently and how to reason logically. It provides three key persuasive points. First, education teaches students how to learn, which is more important than specific knowledge, allowing them to learn anything needed as adults. Second, education teaches reasoning skills to avoid ignorance and analyze information critically. Third, strong reasoning allows people to evaluate claims empirically and logically, such as understanding links between behaviors and health outcomes through cause and effect. Overall, the passage advocates for the value of education in teaching lifelong learning skills and reasoned thinking.
The passage discusses the importance of education in society. It argues that education teaches students how to learn independently and how to reason logically. It provides three key persuasive points. First, education teaches students how to learn, which is more important than specific knowledge, allowing them to learn anything needed as adults. Second, education teaches reasoning skills to avoid ignorance and analyze information critically. Third, strong reasoning allows people to evaluate claims empirically and logically, such as understanding links between behaviors and health outcomes through cause and effect. Overall, the passage advocates for the value of education in teaching lifelong learning skills and reasoned thinking.
I. LEARNING SKILLS • Use various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts (CS-EN11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-5)
II. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT
Summarizing, according to Buckley (2004) in her popular writing text Fit To Print, is a strategy of reducing text to one-third or one-quarter of its original size, clearly articulating the author’s meaning, and retaining main ideas. Diane Hacker (2008), in A Canadian Writer’s Reference, explains that summarizing involves stating a work’s thesis and main ideas “simply, briefly, and accurately”. It is a strategy used to make a concise statement or account of the main points of a text. Various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts (Barrot and Sipacio, 2017) 1. Clarify your purpose before you read. 2. Read the text at least twice until you fully understand its content. 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. Highlight key ideas and phrases; another strategy is to annotate the text. 4. Write all the key ideas and 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 and list your ideas in sentence form. 6. Combine the sentences into a paragraph. Use appropriate transitional devices to improve cohesion. 7. Never copy in verbatim a single sentence from the original text. 8. Refrain from adding comments about the text. Stick to the ideas it presents. 9. Edit the draft of your summary by eliminating redundant ideas. 10. Compare your output with the original text to ensure accuracy. 11. Record the details of the original source (author’s name/s, date of publication, title, publisher, place of publishing, and URL, (if online). It is not necessary to indicate the page number/s of the original text in citing sources in summaries. 12. Format your summary properly. When you combine your summaries in a paragraph, use different formats to show variety in writing. Example 1 The Sentiments of Kundiman Kundiman Niche (28) In the Philippines, the so-called kundiman era covered the years 1880-1930. The masters in the style of writing kundiman were Francisco Baltazar (Balagtas) and Deogracias H. Rosario in Tagalog and Manuel Bernabe and Jesus Balmori in Spanish. Later the famous composers of the kundiman as we know it today were Nicanor Abelardo, Francisco Santiago, Juan de S. Hernandez, Francisco Buencamino, Crispin Reyes, and the young composers that followed. The kundiman has inspired our composers to write higher forms of composition, such as sonatas, concertos, amd symphonies using not only the kundiman but also many folk songs. Source: Laurel, M.M., Lucero, A., & Bumatay-Cruz, R. (2016). English for Academic and Professional Purposes (Reader). Quezon City, Philippines: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House, Inc. • Kundiman • Inspired famous and young • 1880-1890 composers • Francisco Baltazar, Deogracias • Higher forms of composition H. Rosario, Manuel Bernabe, using kundiman and folk songs and Jesus Balmori
Summary Kundiman flourished in our country from 1880-1890 led by Francisco Baltazar, Deogracias H. Rosario, Manuel Bernabe, and Jesus Balmori as key composers. Kundiman had inspired many famous and young composers which resulted to higher forms of composition using kundiman and folk songs.
Example 2 Japanese Rail Tunnel
Due to an increase in traffic between the various island which make up Japan, and predictions of a continuing growth in train travel, a rail tunnel was built to connect the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. The Seikan Tunnel in Japan is today the longest tunnel in the world, with a length of almost 54km. When the tunnel was opened in 1988, all existing trains went through it. However, newer Japanese bullet trains have never used the tunnel because of the cost of extending the high-speed line through it. Consequently, the train journey from Tokyo to Sapporo still takes about ten hours. In contrast, the journey by air takes only three and a half hours. This has combined with the fall in the cost of flying, has meant that more people travel by plane than train and the tunnel is not used as much as forecasters had predicted. Source: https://www.academic-englishuk.com/summary-skills
• Increase in traffic • 54km
• connect Islands (Honshu & • Opened in 1988 Hokkaido) • Bullet trains • Predictions and continuing • Never used tunnel growth • Fall in the cost of flying • The longest rail tunnel • Not used as much as forecasters • opened 1988 predicted
Summary The longest railway tunnel in the world links the islands of Honshu & Hokkaido. This 54km tunnel was inaugurated in 1988 to deal with the predicted increase in rail traffic. However, the fall in the cost of flying and the fact that high speed trains cannot use the tunnel have resulted in the tunnel being less widely used than expected. III. A. ACTIVITIES
a. PRACTICE TASK 1 Directions: Carefully read the following text. Underline/ highlight the key ideas and phrases in the text. Write a summary of one to two sentences of the selection using as many of the main idea words as possible. Be guided by the rubrics below. Write your summary in another sheet of paper. Imagine you only have Php30.00 and that each word you use is worth one peso. Let’s see how much money you will save at the end of this task! There are many types of lethal venom in the animal kingdom, but perhaps no stranger carrier than the platypus. The platypus is one of few venomous mammals. Males carry a venom cocktail in their ankle spurs that paralyzes victims with excruciating pain. Stranger still, the platypus is the only mammal that uses electroreception. What this means is that the platypus uses its bill to sense the electricity produced by the muscular movements of its prey. The platypus neither sees, hears, nor smells its prey while hunting but, rather, pursues it through electroreception. Perhaps most odd, the platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs rather than giving birth to live young. The platypus is an odd creature indeed. Source:https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/reading-comprehension-worksheets/summarizing- worksheets-and-activities.
b. PRACTICE TASK 2 Directions: Read the essay below. From this essay, complete the subsequent graphic organizer with persuasive points for each of the paragraphs following the thesis statement given below. Write your answer in a separate sheet following the format below.
Why is Education Important in Our Society?
Introduction Education is more than just learning from books, and it is a shame that a lot of schools do not see that it is more than just a curriculum and school score. A good education can teach a child how to learn so that the child may take up independent learning as an adult. Education may also teach a child how to reason so that a child does not grow up to be ignorant. Persuasive point 1: The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps people learn “how” to learn. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the way a child is taught how to “learn” things. A child may come away from school not knowing a lot of the course, but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that child may become an adult that learns everything he or she needs in life. Otherwise, that child may grow up to be a person that cannot see the obvious because he or she cannot reason and consciously learn new things. Persuasive point 2 Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to reason well, then they help subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example, there are lots of posts and websites on the Internet about childhood vaccinations and how dangerous they are. Ignorant people than never learned how to reason will look at them, believe them and support them. If a person is taught how to reason then he or she will know how to recognize empirical evidence. Persuasive point 3 That person would look at all the people in the US that have had childhood injections (most of them) and then look at all the people with autism. They would reason that if childhood vaccinations caused autism then most of the people in the US would have autism. If a person is taught how to reason then that person may see how people that smoke seem more likely to develop emphysema than people that do not smoke. They would then reason there is a link between smoking and emphysema. This sort of reasoning can be taught in schools, and if children are not taught it then they walk around risking their children’s lives by not vaccinating them, and walk around smoking because their daddy smoked for years and it never hurt him. Persuasive point 4 Conclusion If education is not seen as important, then one day it will just be all about school scores and hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children start to hate learning because school put them off it for life (this already happens in some cases). Plus, without education teaching people how to reason things out and teaching them how to separate what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then our society will become more and more ignorant until a smarter country simply marches over and takes our country from under out ignorant noses. Thesis Statement: There are two best reasons why education is important in our society.
Paragraph 1 Persuasive Point/s
Paragraph 2 Persuasive Point/s
Paragraph 3 Persuasive Point/s
Paragraph 4 Persuasive Point/s
Paragraph 5 Persuasive Point/s
c. PRACTICE TASK 3 Directions: After identifying the persuasive points, in a separate sheet of paper, write the summary of the text. Be guided by the rubrics below.
B. ASSESSMENT
EFFECTIVE OR NOT EFFECTIVE
Directions: Write E if the statement shows an effective strategy in writing a summary; and N if it does not. _____ 1. Glenn adds his own explanation to some of the key ideas he writes in his summary. _____ 2. Hazel highlights the key ideas in the original text while reading it. _____ 3. Sarah reads the original text several times until she fully understands it. _____ 4. David copies in verbatim some of the sentences from the original text. _____ 5. Giovani does not acknowledge the original source in his summary.
MULTIPLE CHOICE Directions: Read each question carefully and write the letter of the correct answer.
6. Which among the choices is NOT included in writing a summary?
A. Thesis statement C. Conclusions B. Supporting details D. Article Title 7. Study the given course of actions when summarizing a text. Which among the following sequences has the correct order of actions? 1 Outline the major points. 2 Compose general statements. 3 Read the entire text. 4 Identify the thesis. 5 Write a summary.
A. 3-2-1-4-5 C. 3-4-1-2-5 B. 3-1-4-2-5 D. 3-2-4-1-5 8. Choose the letter that presents the best summary of the paragraph below. When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range- herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, and swamps in southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife. A. There are lots of cows in Texas. B. There are many different, varied parts of Texas. C. Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States. D. There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas. For 9-10: Read the given excerpt carefully and choose two most effective summaries from A-D choices. Why Sinigang? Doreen G. Fernandez Rice (5) Rice to us is more than basic cereal, for as constant background, steady accompaniment; it is also the shaper of other food, and of tastes. We not only sour, but also salt (daing, tuyo, bagoong) because the blandness of rice suggests the desirability of sharp contrast. Rice can be ground into flour and thus the proliferation of puto; the mildly sweet Putong Polo, the banana leaf-encased Manapla variety; puto filled with meat or flavored with ube; puto in cakes or wedges, white or brown eaten with dinuguan or salabat. A. Rice is one of the staple foods of Filpinos. It balances various tastes. Hence, it can be consumed with variety of Filipino dishes. Likewise, rice is also an important ingredient for other Filipino products. B. Rice is one of the staple foods of Filipinos which can be found anywhere in the country. It is usually consumed with daing, tuyo, and bagoong. Also, it is found in varieties of Filipino products like puto. C. We consider rice as an important food because it brings balance to our tastes once we eat it with variety of Filipino dishes. Also, it makes the production of different Filipino snacks possible. D. We consider rice not just as simple grain because it brings different tastes when consumed with other foods or dishes. Likewise, it is an important ingredient in making our various Filipino snacks.
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V. REFERENCES
Barrot & Sipacio. (2017). Communicate today ENGLISH for academic & professional purposes for SHS. Quezon City: C&E Publishing, Inc. Buckley, J. (2004). Fit to print: The Canadian student’s guide to essay writing. (6th ed.) Toronto: Nelson. Department of Education, Region V Bicol. (2020). English for academic and professional purposes: Quarter 1- Module 3 (Uses various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts). Hacker, D. (2008). A Canadian writer’s reference. (4th ed.) Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. Laurel, M.M., Lucero, A., & Bumatay-Cruz, R. (2016). English for academic and professional purposes (Reader). Quezon City, Philippines: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House, Inc. https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/reading-comprehension- worksheets/summarizing-worksheets-and-activities. https://www.academic-englishuk.com/summary-skills Prepared by:
