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EAPP Techniques in Summarizing Text

The document discusses techniques for summarizing a variety of texts, including erasing unnecessary details, redundant information, and substituting general terms for specific examples. It outlines strategies like the 5 W's and 1 H method, chronological ordering of events, and stating the main points without retelling every detail.

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EAPP Techniques in Summarizing Text

The document discusses techniques for summarizing a variety of texts, including erasing unnecessary details, redundant information, and substituting general terms for specific examples. It outlines strategies like the 5 W's and 1 H method, chronological ordering of events, and stating the main points without retelling every detail.

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EAPP

TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING VARIETY


OF TEXTS

Summarizing is how we take larger selections


of text and reduce them to their bare
essentials: the gist, the key ideas, and the
main points that are worth noting and 3. 5 W's, 1 H. This technique relies on six
remembering. crucial questions: who, what, when
where, why, and how. These questions
BASIC RULES
make it easy to identify the main
I. Erase things that don’t matter. Delete character, important details, and main
trivial material that is unnecessary to idea.
understanding.

II. Erase things that repeat. Delete


redundant material. In note-taking, time
and space is precious. If a word or
phrase says the same thing you have
already written down, then don’t write it
again!

III. Trade general terms for specific


names. Substitute superordinate terms 4. First Then Finally. It summarizes the
for lists (e.g., flowers for daisies, tulips events in chronological order.
for roses). Focus on the big picture.
First: What happened first? Include the main
Long and technical lists are hard to
character and main event/action. Then: What
remember. If one word will give you the
key details took place during the event/action?
meaning, then less is more.
Finally: What were the results of the
IV. Use your own words to write the
event/action?
summary. Write the summary using
your own words but make sure to retain 5. Give Me the Gist. This type of
the main points. technique is like giving a friend the gist
of a story. In other words, they want a
TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING
summary – not a retelling of every detail.
TEXT
Summarizing allows you to create a succinct,
1. Somebody Wanted But So Then. This
concise statement of an author's main points
strategy helps to generalize, recognize
without copying and pasting a lot of text from
cause and effect relationships, and find
the source.
main ideas

2. SAAC METHOD. SAAC is an acronym


for “State, Assign, Action, Complete.”
Each word in the acronym refers to a
specific element that should be included
in the summary

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