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Lesson 3 Techniques in Summarizing Variety of Academic Texts

The document discusses various techniques for summarizing academic texts, including identifying the main idea and key points, disregarding unnecessary information, simplifying concepts, and using strategies like MIDAS, RAFT, and the 5 Ws and 1 H. Summarization requires extracting the most important elements in a brief, concise form while avoiding copying directly from the original text.

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Lesson 3 Techniques in Summarizing Variety of Academic Texts

The document discusses various techniques for summarizing academic texts, including identifying the main idea and key points, disregarding unnecessary information, simplifying concepts, and using strategies like MIDAS, RAFT, and the 5 Ws and 1 H. Summarization requires extracting the most important elements in a brief, concise form while avoiding copying directly from the original text.

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LESSON 3:

N IQ UE S I N S U M M A R IZ IN G
TECH S
I E TY OF A C A DE MI C T E X T
V AR
•Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and
reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas,
the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
•Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in brief form";
it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger
work into its primary notions.
WHAT IS A SUMMARY?
Summary is a brief or short statement or account of something
that consists of the main ideas and important details of a text.
The length of your summary depends on the main idea and key
points you have covered. There is no definite or exact length of a
summary.
WHAT A SUMMARY IS NOT?
It is NOT a place for opinions.
It is NOT copy-pasted. Copy-paste is when you just copy few
sentences from the text, word for word, and delete (take out) other
sentences when there is already no space in your paper.
It is NOT writing down everything.
IS A SUMMARY ALWAYS IN SENTENCES OR A
PARAGRAPH?

Most of the time you are expected to write summaries of


academic texts in sentences or in a paragraph form.
BUT, there are others ways or strategies to summarize a
text that do not require you to write complete sentences.
•Before writing a summary, you need to carefully read and
understand the text for you to be able to point out its main
idea and key points which are the most essential in
summarizing.
•The main idea is what the text is about. Often, you can
find the main idea in the topic sentence or thesis
statement. Sometimes the main idea is explicit;
sometimes it is implied.
•Key points or sub points are arguments or information
that are used to support the main idea.
BASIC RULES:

•A. Erase things that don’t matter. Delete trivial material that is
unnecessary to understanding.
•B. Erase things that repeat. Delete redundant material. In note taking,
time and space is precious. If a word or phrase says basically the
same thing you have already written down, then don’t write it again!
BASIC RULES:
• C. Trade, general terms for specific names. Substitute superordinate
terms for lists (e.g., flowers for daisies, tulips for roses). Focus on the
big picture. Long, technical lists are hard to remember. If one word
will give you the meaning, then less is more.
• D. Use your own words to write the summary. Write the summary
using your own words but make sure to retain the main points.
TECHNIQUES:

•1. Use MIDAS touch


•M Main idea: Identify main idea from the topic sentence (if there
is one) or use all or any of the basic signal words [ who (subject),
what (action), where (location), when (time), why (reason), how
(process)].
•I Identify key points.
•D Disregard unimportant information.
•A Analyze redundant information.
•S Simplify, categorize, and label important information.
•2. RAFT Technique
•Role (from whose point of view)
•Audience (the specific reader to whom the piece is being
written)
•Form or Format (a letter, memo, list, email, etc.)
•Topic (specific subject of the writing)
TECHNIQUES:

•3. Somebody Wanted But So. The strategy helps students


generalize, recognize cause and effect relationships, and find
main ideas.
TECHNIQUES:
•4. SAAC Method. This method is particularly helpful in
summarizing any kind of text. 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.
TECHNIQUES:

•5. W's, 1 H. This technique relies on six crucial questions:


who, what, when where, why, and how. These questions
make it easy to identify the main character, important
details, and main idea.
TECHNIQUES:
•6. First Then Finally. This technique helps students summarize
events in chronological order.
First: What happened first? Include the main character and main
event/action. Then: What key details took place during the
event/action? Finally: What were the results of the event/action?
TECHNIQUES:
•Here is an example using "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
First, Goldilocks entered the bears' home while they were
gone. Then, she ate their food, sat in their chairs, and slept in
their beds. Finally, she woke up to find the bears watching
her, so she jumped up and ran away.
TECHNIQUES:

•7. Give Me the Gist. This type of techniques is like


giving a friend the gist of a story. In other words, they
want a summary – not a retelling of every detail.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, gist
means main point or essence. In this strategy, you fill in
the details asked of you and follow the steps
given.
Title of the Text: _________________________
Source: _________________________
a. Read the article or section of text.
b. Fill in the 5 Ws and H where applicable.
Who: Where:
What: Why:
When: How:
c. Write a 10-word GIST summary.
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____

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