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Summarizing a Variety

of Academic Texts
What is a Summary?

A summary is a shortened version of an


original text. It includes the thesis and major
supporting points, and should reveal the
relationship between the major points and the
thesis.
A summary is a short retelling of a longer
written passage, containing the author’s
most important ideas. Summarizing helps
improve both your reading and writing skills.
To summarize, you must read a passage
closely, finding the main ideas and
supporting ideas. Then you must briefly
write down those ideas in a few sentences
or a paragraph.
It is important to understand the
difference between a summary and a
paraphrase. A paraphrase is simply a
rewriting of a passage in your own words.
A summary, on the other hand, contains
only the main idea and the supporting
ideas of a passage. A summary will be
much shorter than a paraphrase.
How Long is a Summary?

It may be any length, from 25% of


the original to one sentence.
How to Summarize a Paragraph

1. Preview and read. Preview and read the


paragraph closely. You probably will find
that you need to read the paragraph more
than one time.
2. Make a list or outline. Determine the main
idea and the supporting details of the
paragraph. Make a list or outline of these
ideas. Be sure to use your own words.
How to Summarize a Paragraph

3. Write a summary. Using your list, write a


summary of the paragraph. State the main
ideas, followed by important ideas. Limit your
summary to just one or two sentences.

4. Read aloud and correct. Read the summary


aloud, correcting any mistakes
BEGIN
“The Northern Lights”

There are times when the night sky glows


with bands of color. The bands may
begin as cloud shapes and then spread
into a great arc across the entire sky.
They may fall in folds like a curtain drawn
across the heavens. The lights usually
grow brighter, then suddenly dim. During
this time the sky glows with pale yellow,
pink, green, violet, blue, and red. These
lights are called the Aurora Borealis.
Some people call them the Northern
Lights. Scientists have been watching
them for hundreds of years. They are not
quite sure what causes them. In ancient
times people were afraid of the Lights.
They imagined that they saw fiery
dragons in the sky. Some even
concluded that the heavens were on fire.
Summary

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights,


are bands of color in the night sky.
Ancient people thought that these lights
were dragon on fire, and even modern
scientists are not sure what they are.

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