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Summarizing is an important skill that helps improve understanding of texts by identifying key ideas and combining supporting details into a clear, concise paragraph. Effective summarization requires clarifying the purpose, understanding the full text, selecting important ideas, organizing them using outlines or maps, combining ideas into sentences, and ensuring the summary does not copy from the original but accurately reflects its content. Summaries can be formatted with the ideas first, authors first, or dates first when incorporating source information.

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Summarizing is an important skill that helps improve understanding of texts by identifying key ideas and combining supporting details into a clear, concise paragraph. Effective summarization requires clarifying the purpose, understanding the full text, selecting important ideas, organizing them using outlines or maps, combining ideas into sentences, and ensuring the summary does not copy from the original but accurately reflects its content. Summaries can be formatted with the ideas first, authors first, or dates first when incorporating source information.

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Basics of Summarizing

What is Summarizing?
Summarizing is an important 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 ideas/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.
Guidelines in Summarizing
1. Clarify your purpose before you read.
2. Read the text and understand the meaning. 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.
4. Write all the key ideas and phrases you identified on the margins
or on your notebook in a bullet or an outline form.
5. Without looking at the text, identify the connections of these key
ideas and phrases using a concept maps, graphic organizers or
thinking maps.
6. List your ideas in sentences into a paragraph. Use appropriate
transitional devices to improve cohesion.
7. Combine the sentences into a paragraph. Use appropriate
transitional devices to improve cohesion.
8. Ensure that 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/s, date
of publication, title, publisher, place of publishing, and URL (if
online]).
13. Format your summary properly.
Formats in Summarizing

§ Idea Heading Format


§ Author Heading Format
§ Date Heading Format
Idea Heading Format
§ In this format, the summarized idea comes before the citation.

Example:

Benchmarking is a useful strategy that has the potential to help


public officials improve the performance of local services
(Folz,2004;Ammons,2001). Once the practice of a particular city is
benchmarked, it can be a guidepost and the basis for the other
counterparts to improve its own.
Author Heading Format
§ The summarized idea comes after the citation. The author's name/s is/are
connected by an appropriate reporting verb.

Example:

The considerable number of users of FB has led educators to utilize FB for


communicating with their students(Grant, 2008; as cited in Donmus, 2010). The
study of Kabilan and Abidin (2010) shows that the students perceived FB as
an online environment to expedite language learning specifically English
Donmus (2010) asserts that educational games on FB fecundate learning
process and make students*learning environment more engaging. As regards
literacy, this notion reveals that FB could be used s a tool to aid individuals execute
a range of social acts through social literacy implementation (ibid). Blackstone
andHardwood (2012) suggest the facilitative strength of FB as it elicits greater
achievement on collaboration among students,
Using Reporting Verbs when Summarizing
§ A reporting verb is a word used to discuss another person's
writings or assertions. They are generally used to incorporate the
source to the discussion in the text.

Having a syntactically correct sentence is not enough to create


meaning. AsNoam Chomsky pointed out, a sentence can be
perfect in terms of syntax and still not make sense. He showed
this by coming up with the famous sentence,"Colorless green
ideas sleep furiously" (Chomsky, 1957).
Date Heading Format
§ In this format, the summarized idea comes after the date when the
material was published.

Example:
On the other hand, active participation of the citizens in
development contributes to a sound and reasonable government
decisions. In their 2004 study on the impact of participatory
development approach, Irvin and Stansbury argue that
participation can be valuable to the participants and the
government in terms of the process and outcomes of decision
making.

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