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- 1. Summarizing Tips
By Daniela Munca, PhD
American Language Center
April 2010
2. Summarizing like Carving
Michelangelo is said to have created David by "taking a block of
marble and
cutting away everything that was
not David."
Writing a summary is a similar process you take a long work, and
you cut out as much as possible. The question is, what do you
cut?
3. Why teach our students to summarize?
A valuable SKILL used in:
essay writing
presentation making
post-reading activities
Class projects: making a poster, participating in a debate,
etc.
4. Why summarize ?
Writing a good summary demonstrates that you:
- clearly understand a text
5. can communicate that understanding to your readers
- apply your high-thinking skills (analyzing, processing, eliminating, etc)