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What Is Summarizing?: Speed Read

The document discusses summarizing texts and speeches. It defines summarizing as providing a brief overview of key information while leaving out unnecessary details. The steps to summarize include getting the general idea, checking understanding, taking notes, writing a summary in your own words, and checking your work. Summarizing teaches important skills like determining essential ideas and focusing on important words and phrases. It is useful for consolidating information in various subjects and contexts like meetings, presentations, and research papers.

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What Is Summarizing?: Speed Read

The document discusses summarizing texts and speeches. It defines summarizing as providing a brief overview of key information while leaving out unnecessary details. The steps to summarize include getting the general idea, checking understanding, taking notes, writing a summary in your own words, and checking your work. Summarizing teaches important skills like determining essential ideas and focusing on important words and phrases. It is useful for consolidating information in various subjects and contexts like meetings, presentations, and research papers.

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What is Summarizing?

A summary is a brief overview of an entire discussion or argument. You might


summarize a whole research paper or conversation in a single paragraph, for example,
or with a series of bullet points, using your own words and style.

People often summarize when the original material is long, or to emphasize key facts or
points. Summaries leave out detail or examples that may distract the reader from the
most important information, and they simplify complex arguments, grammar and
vocabulary.

Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to
ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful
way. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read.
Summarization strategies can be used in almost every content area.

Why use summarizing?

 It helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate important


details that support them.

 It enables students to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that
are worth noting and remembering.

 It teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main
points for more concise understanding.

How to Summarize Text or Speech

Follow steps 1-5 below to summarize text. To summarize spoken material – a speech, a
meeting, or a presentation, for example – start at step 3.

1. Get a General Idea of the Original

First, speed read  the text that you're summarizing to get a general impression of its
content. Pay particular attention to the title, introduction, conclusion, and the headings
and subheadings.

2. Check Your Understanding

Build your comprehension of the text by reading it again more carefully. Check that your
initial interpretation of the content was correct.

3. Make Notes
Take notes on what you're reading or listening to. Use bullet points, and introduce each
bullet with a key word or idea. Write down only one point or idea for each bullet.

If you're summarizing spoken material, you may not have much time on each point
before the speaker moves on. If you can, obtain a meeting agenda, a copy of the
presentation, or a transcript of the speech in advance, so you know what's coming.

Make sure your notes are concise, well-ordered, and include only the points that really
matter.

4. Write Your Summary

Bullet points or numbered lists are often an acceptable format for summaries – for
example, on presentation slides, in the minutes of a meeting, or in Key Points sections
like the one at the end of this article.

However, don't just use the bulleted notes that you took in step 3. They'll likely need
editing or "polishing" if you want other people to understand them.

Some summaries, such as research paper abstracts, press releases, and marketing
copy, require continuous prose. If this is the case, write your summary as a paragraph,
turning each bullet point into a full sentence.

Aim to use only your own notes, and refer to original documents or recordings only if
you really need to. This helps to ensure that you use your own words.

If you're summarizing speech, do so as soon as possible after the event, while it's still
fresh in your mind.

5. Check Your Work

Your summary should be a brief but informative outline of the original. Check that you've
expressed all of the most important points in your own words, and that you've left out
any unnecessary detail.
Activity 3: SUMMARIZING

Directions:

1. Summarize three (3) journal articles on any of the following topics of your choice.
Don’t forget to indicate your sources.
a. Teenage Pregnancy
b. Facebook engagement of students
c. The effects of Covid- 19 on children

2. Use long coupon bond

3. Use 1-inch margins on all sides;

4. Pick a clear and readable font (the preferred fonts are Times New Roman,
Courier, and Bookman);

5. Set the font size to 12 pt.;

6. Center the title of the paper along with your name.

7. Write to whom your output is to be submitted by.

8. Write the date upon your submission in the lower portion of your cover
page.

9. Please see attached the criteria for you to be guided.


CRITERIA

COMPONENTS 10 8 6 4

The student The student The student The student


communicates communicates communicates communicates
and and and and
Main Idea expresses the expresses the expresses the expresses the
main idea with main idea with main idea with main idea with
high degree of considerable some limited
effectiveness. effectiveness. effectiveness effectiveness

Transitions Transitions Transitions Transitions


are used to are used to are used to are used to
show the show the show the show the
development development development development
from one idea from one idea from one idea from one idea
Transitions to the next to the next to the next to the next
paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph
with a high with with some with limited
degree of considerable effectiveness. effectiveness.
effectiveness. effectiveness.

Uses Uses Uses Uses


conventions, conventions, conventions, conventions,
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
and and and and
terminology terminology terminology terminology
Use of with high with with high with limited
Conventions degree of considerable some effectiveness.
effectiveness. effectiveness. effectiveness. It has fie and
There is no With one or It has three to more spelling/
spelling/ two spelling/ four spelling/ grammar
grammar grammar grammar error.
error. errors. errors.

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