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What Does This Mean?
• A summary is a brief review of the main ideas and key supporting details of whatever text you’re reading.
• It might help to go back and review your PowerPoint Presentation on main ideas and supporting details before moving on.
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What’s the Point?
• The point of summarizing properly is to prove or demonstrate that you understand what you’re reading.
• Your goal is to include only enough information to convey the gist of the text.
• A summary should always be much shorter than the original.
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How is this different from Paraphrasing?
• Great Question!
• Paraphrasing puts an entire passage or speech or text into your own words, and credit is always given to the original speaker or writer.
• It’s not uncommon to include direct quotes in a paraphrase.
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Summarizing v/s Paraphrasing
• Summarizing is focusing only on the main ideas ~ the key phrases and words ~ and any important supporting details.
• Very rarely, ideally never, will you use direct quotes.
• While paraphrasing is a more condensed version of the original, a summary is a super concise, to-the-point piece of writing.
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To Summarize. . .
. . .tell me what I need to know, but KEEP IT BRIEF.
(We just summarized four slides worth of information into 10 words which clearly convey the main idea of summarizing. Isn’t that amazing?!?!)
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How Do I Do This?
• Read carefully through the text.
• While you’re doing this, try to answer these simple questions:– Who, What, When, Where, Why and
How
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• For fictional pieces, think of these questions in this manner:
– What is the setting of the story?– Who are the main characters?– What are the main conflicts?– How are these conflicts resolved?
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So Far So Good!
• Next, looking at the text, write down ONLY key words or phrases that help to convey the main idea, or the answers to the questions of who, what, etc.
• Do not include your own ideas and opinions.
• Do not include any direct quotations.
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Finish it up
• Now take these main ideas, supporting information and /or answers to our key questions of who, what, etc. and write a brief paragraph.
• This brief paragraph should demonstrate that you clearly understand what you’re reading.
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Remember. . .
Keep it Real but
Keep it Brief!!!