How to Summarize.ppt

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Quick-Fix Workshop

Communications Centre


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What is a Summary?

A summary is a shortened version of an

origina text! "t incudes the thesis and ma#or

supporting points$ and shoud revea thereationship %et&een the ma#or points and the

thesis!


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'o& (ong is a Summary?

"t may %e any ength$ from )*+ of

the origina to one sentence!


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What you ,eed

! A %ig$ ugy$ over&heming text. to dissectand shrink!

)! A 'i-ighter. to ocate the text/s importantparts!

0! 1aper. to &rite do&n the main point$purpose of the text$ ma#or points and

documentation information!2! A ruthess$ %ut respectfu attitude. to

con3uer the mess!


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Step . 7opic

8 (ocate the topic!

8 7he topic is a &ord or phrase that says &hat

the text is a%out!8 7ry to %e as specific as possi%e a%out the

topic!


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Step ). 1urpose

8 What is the purpose of the text!

8 9oes it te a story :narrate;? "nform?

1ersuade or raise readers< a&areness of anissue?


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Step 0. What is the 7hesis?

8 (ook for the thesis :&hat the author is saying

a%out the topic;!

8 (ook first in the introduction$ then in theconcusion= &riters often &rite explicitthesis

statements!

8 Write the thesis in your o&n &ords :and make

sure it matches your sense of the author


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Step 2. 9ivisions in the 7ext

8 (ook for the ma#or divisions of the text! "n

your o&n &ords$ summari>e each division in

one sentence!8 :7hat may mean summari>ing each

paragraph$ %ut often severa paragraphs go

together;!

8 ake a ist of a ma#or points!


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Step *. @rgani>ing Sentences

8 Work &ith the sentences you have created toproduce a summary!

8 4e ruthess. a good summary is SCC",C7:you may eave some information out -- asong as it is Bextraneous/;

8 ake sure you revea the reationships

%et&een the ideas! Are therecontrasts or comparisons%et&een some of the ideas?


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8 Summaries are short restatements of a &ork


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8 When summari>ing$ avoid exampes$ asides$ an

aogies$ and rhetorica strategies!

8 @ny 3uote and paraphrase &ords and phrases t

hat you fee you a%soutey must to reproduce

exacty the author


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Checkist! eread your source unti you fuy understand it!

)! Write a one sentence restatement of the source


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7he 9ifference 4et&een1araphrasing and Summari>ing8 7o paraphrase means to express someone

esee means to disti ony the mostessentia points of someone ese

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