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The document outlines the definition and importance of summarizing, highlighting the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing. It provides steps for effective summarization, emphasizing the need to capture the main ideas without personal opinions or unnecessary details. Additionally, it includes guidelines for a performance task where students must summarize selected articles, adhering to specific formatting requirements.

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Week 2 Summary Writing (1)

The document outlines the definition and importance of summarizing, highlighting the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing. It provides steps for effective summarization, emphasizing the need to capture the main ideas without personal opinions or unnecessary details. Additionally, it includes guidelines for a performance task where students must summarize selected articles, adhering to specific formatting requirements.

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UNIT 1 Week 2 February19-23, 2024

Definition and importance Steps before writing a summary


of summarizing

Difference between Steps of summarizing a text


summarizing and paraphrasing
• Differentiates language used in academic
texts from various disciplines;
• Uses knowledge of text structure to glean
the information he/she needs;
• Uses various techniques in summarizing a
variety of academic texts;
• Writes a precis/abstract/summary of texts
in the various disciplines.
• Summarizing reduces a text to its main idea and necessary information.

• It is a mixture of reducing a long text to a short text and selecting relevant


information.

• A good summary shows that you have understood the text.


• Summarizing helps you understand and learn important information by
reducing the text to its key ideas.

• The primary purpose of a summary is to give an accurate, objective


representation of what the work says.

• It is a useful study tool as well as good writing practice.


To the untrained eye, a summary and a paraphrase may look alike.
However, there are differences.

• shorter than the original text • shorter or longer than the original text

• eliminates details, examples, and • describes the original text in different


supporting points words and does not leave out details
Read the text and
organize the information.
THE SUMMARY SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN A
QUARTER OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT.
It can be one sentence, one paragraph, or multiple
paragraphs, depending on the length of the original
and your purpose for writing the summary.

BEGIN YOUR SUMMARY WITH THE AVOID INCLUDING UNNECESSARY


STATEMENT OF THE THESIS. INFORMATION THAT SAYS THE SAME THING
Start with an introductory sentence that AS ANOTHER PART OF THE PASSAGE.
mentions the author, title, and thesis.
AVOID PLAGIARIZING OR BRINGING IN YOUR
WRITE THE MAIN IDEA OF EACH SECTION PERSONAL OPINION.
IN ONE WELL-DEVELOPED SENTENCE. It is about restating what the author says, not your
Make sure that what you include in your own ideas.
sentences are key points and NOT minor details.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR SUMMARY INCLUDES


FOLLOW THE ORDER OF IDEAS IN THE THE MEANING OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT AND
ORIGINAL TEXT. DOES NOT CHANGE THE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE
Write the main ideas and then their major details,
OR TONE.
as they appear in the source text.
Nordquist, Richard. (2020, August 25). What Is a Written
Summary?. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/
summary-composition-1692160

Summarizing & note-taking. (n.d.). UEfAP Retrieved


January 7, 2022, from http://www.uefap.com/reading
/notetake/summary.htm

Summarizing Your Text. (n.d.). Reading Center Monterey


Peninsula College. Retrieved January 7, 2022, from
https://www.mpc.edu/home/showdocument?id=12794
Outline of Summary Writing
.

Performance Task 1: Summary Writing


• Accomplish by pair .

Unit 1 Summative Quiz (Evaluation)


You are to think of yourself as a news reporter who
will summarize any of the given sources listed below.
Remember, you just have to get the gist of the text
and follow the guidelines in writing a summary. Kindly
choose one article according to your strand.
You are to think of yourself as a news reporter who
will summarize any of the given sources listed below.
Remember, you just have to get the gist of the text
and follow the guidelines in writing a summary. Kindly
choose one article according to your strand.
You are to think of yourself as a news reporter who
will summarize any of the given sources listed below.
Remember, you just have to get the gist of the text
and follow the guidelines in writing a summary. Kindly
choose one article according to your strand.
• This will be accomplished by pair and to be submitted on your A-Mode via E-Class.

• Kindly follow this format:


⚬ Paper size: 8.5” x 11”
⚬ Orientation: Portrait
⚬ Spacing: 1.5 inches
⚬ Indentation: 1 inch
⚬ All Margins: 1 inch
⚬ Font Sizes: Labels or Headings: 12, Content: 11
⚬ Font Type: Times New Roman
⚬ Color: Black [Automatic];
• In the event your paper was found plagiarized from a published source or directly
lifted from another section’s output, your group will automatically be given a score of
zero (0).

• Only one member shall submit the output


"Reading an academic text does not
simply involve finding information in the
text itself. When reading an academic
text, the reader recreates the meaning
of the text, together with the author."

Hemida (2009)

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