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Summarizing Techniques

The document outlines various techniques for summarizing academic texts, including identifying key details, restating ideas in your own words, and expressing the overall meaning using different words to increase clarity. It also provides examples of summarization frameworks like SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN and 5 W's and 1 H that can be used to summarize stories by focusing on important elements like characters, events, locations, and outcomes. The goal is to extract and synthesize the most essential information from a text in a concise yet comprehensive summary.

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Summarizing Techniques

The document outlines various techniques for summarizing academic texts, including identifying key details, restating ideas in your own words, and expressing the overall meaning using different words to increase clarity. It also provides examples of summarization frameworks like SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN and 5 W's and 1 H that can be used to summarize stories by focusing on important elements like characters, events, locations, and outcomes. The goal is to extract and synthesize the most essential information from a text in a concise yet comprehensive summary.

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Objectives

• Use various
• Identify
techniques in
techniques in
summarizing a
summarizing
variety of
academic texts.
academic texts.
• A summary is a synthesis of the
key ideas of a piece of writing,
restated in your own words.
• It is giving the key points of the
topic and considering the
information that will be included
in the topic.
• express the meaning of the writer
or speaker or something written or
spoken using different words,
especially to achieve greater
clarity.
SOMEBODY WANTED
BUT SO THEN
• SOMEBODY: Who is the story about?
• WANTED: What does the main character
want?
• BUT: Identify a problem that the main
character encountered.
• SO: How does the main character solve
the problem?
• THEN: Tell how the story ends.
SOMEBODY WANTED
BUT SO THEN
• SOMEBODY: Little Red Riding Hood
• WANTED: She wanted to take cookies to
her sick grandmother.
• BUT: She encountered a wolf pretending
to be her grandmother.
• SO: She ran away, crying for help.
• THEN: A woodsman heard her and saved
her from the wolf.
SOMEBODY WANTED
BUT SO THEN
Little Red Riding Hood wanted to take cookies
to her sick grandmother, but she encountered
a wolf. He got to her grandmother's house first
and pretended to be the old woman. He was
going to eat Little Red Riding Hood, but she
realized what he was doing and ran away,
crying for help. A woodsman heard the girl's
cries and saved her from the wolf.
SAAC METHOD
• STATE: the name of the article, book, or
story
• ASSIGN: the name of the author
• ACTION: what the author is doing
(example: tells, explains)
• COMPLETE: Complete the sentence or
summary with keywords and important
details.
SAAC METHOD

• STATE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf


• ASSIGN: Aesop
• ACTION: tells
• COMPLETE: what happens when a
shepherd boy repeatedly lies to the
villagers about seeing a wolf
SAAC METHOD
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," by Aesop,
tells what happens when a shepherd
boy repeatedly lies to the villagers
about seeing a wolf. After a while, they
ignore his false cries. Then, when a
wolf really does attack, they don't
come to help him.
5 W’s and 1 H
• WHO: is the story about?
• WHAT: did they do?
• WHEN: did the action takes place?
• WHERE: did the story happen?
• WHY: did the main character do what
s/he did?
• HOW: did the main character do what
s/he did?
5 W’s and 1 H
• WHO: the tortoise
• WHAT: He raced a quick, boastful hare and
won.
• WHEN: (When is not specified in this story)
• WHERE: an old country road
• WHY: The tortoise was tired of hearing the
hare boast about his speed.
• HOW: The tortoise kept up his slow but steady
pace.
5 W'S, 1 H
In am old country road, Tortoise got
tired of listening to Hare boast about
how fast he was, so he challenged Hare
to a race. Even though he was slower
than Hare, Tortoise won by keeping up
his slow and steady pace when Hare
stopped to take a nap.
FIRST THEN FINALLY

• FIRST: What happened first? Include


the main character and main
event/action.
• THEN: What key details took place
during the event/action?
• FINALLY: What were the results of the
event/action?
FIRST THEN FINALLY

First, Goldilocks enterede the bears' home


while they were gone. Then, she ate their
food, sat in their chairs, and slept in their
beds. Finally, she woke up to find the bears
watching her, so she jumped up and ran
away.
GIVE ME THE GIST

• STEP 1: What or who is the text


about?
• STEP 2: What is the most important
information about the who or what?
• STEP 3: Write a sentence using the
answers from steps one and two.
GIVE ME THE GIST

• STEP 1: Emily Grierson


• STEP 2: The strange circumstances of
Emily's life and her odd relationships
with her father and her lover, the
Yankee road worker Homer Barron.
• STEP 3: Write a sentence using the
answers from steps one and two.
GIVE ME THE GIST

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner


recounts the story of an eccentric
spinster, Emily Grierson and the strange
circumstances of her life and her odd
relationships with her father and her
lover, the Yankee road worker, Homer
Barron.
TECHNIQUE 1

• INTRODUCTION:
• RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
• METHODOLOGY:
• RESULTS:
• CONCLUSION:
TECHNIQUE 1
• INTRODUCTION: One of the preparations
for the Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET)
is enrolling in a review center. In
connection with that, this study discusses
the perception of BSE major in English
batch 2019 UMak graduates in the
effectiveness of review center in their
performance in LET.
TECHNIQUE 1

• RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This


study is significant to help future
education graduates to be
enlightened with the advantages and
disadvantages of enrolling in a
review center.
TECHNIQUE 1
• METHODOLOGY: The researcher uses a
survey questionnaire containing a five-point
Likert Scale of Agreement to rate the
respondent’s perception on review centers.
• RESULTS: The results reveal that majority of
the respondents agree that enrolling in a
review center helps them in preparing for
LET.
TECHNIQUE 1

• CONCLUSION: The study reveals


that the respondents strongly
agree that review center prepared
them for LET and that they would
recommend it to future graduates
who will take the LET in the
future.
TECHNIQUE 1
TECHNIQUE 2

• WHAT:
• WHO:
• WHEN:
• WHERE:
• WHY:
• HOW:
TECHNIQUE 2
• WHAT: President Ferdinand Marcos
Jr. told the American investors that
now is the best time to invest in our
country, Philippines.
• WHO: President Ferdinand Marcos
Jr.
• WHEN: Thursday morning,
September 22, 2022 (New York time)
TECHNIQUE 2
• WHERE: New York City
• WHY: According to the president, the
government amended the Corporate
Recovery and Tax Incentives for
Enterprises (CREATE) Act to encourage
the foreign investors. He also endorsed
the country by stating things such as
opportunities and timing.
TECHNIQUE 2

• HOW: The president met


various business executives
since he arrived in new York.
TECHNIQUE 2
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told
the American investors that now is
the best time to invest in our
country, Philippines. He said this
during the Philippine Economic
Briefing in New York City on
Thursday morning, September 22,
2022 (New York time).
TECHNIQUE 2
According to the president, the
government amended the Corporate
Recovery and Tax Incentives for
Enterprises (CREATE) Act to
encourage the foreign investors. He
also endorsed the country by stating
things such as opportunities and
timing. It is said that since he arrived in
TECHNIQUE 2
New York, he has been meeting
business executives.

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