{"id":278,"date":"2019-08-28T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i\/chapter\/text-summarizing\/"},"modified":"2019-08-28T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:18:11","slug":"text-summarizing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-eng-101-college-writing-i-lynch\/chapter\/text-summarizing\/","title":{"raw":"Summarizing","rendered":"Summarizing"},"content":{"raw":"\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\nAre you familiar with the phrase, <em>the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else<\/em>?\n\nWriting a summary of a source is a very similar process to teaching someone the content--but in this case, the student you're teaching is yourself.\n\n<strong>Summarizing<\/strong>--condensing someone else's ideas and putting it into your own shortened form--allows you to be sure that you've accurately captured the main idea of the text you're reading.\n<h2>How to Write Summary Statements<\/h2>\n<div class=\"textbox\">\n\nUse these processes&nbsp;to help you write summary statements:\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n \t<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Underline important information and write key words in margin.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Record ideas using a two-column note-taking system. Record questions you have about the text concepts&nbsp;in the&nbsp;left column and answers you find in the reading in the right column.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Identify how concepts relate to what you already know.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Add examples and detail.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nFor retaining key ideas as you read, write a summary statement at the end of each paragraph or section.&nbsp;For capturing the major ideas of the entire work, write a summary paragraph (or more) that describes the entire text.\n\nThese summary statements will be very useful to draw from in the final step of the reading process, <strong>reviewing<\/strong>.\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n\nFor longer, overall summary projects that capture an entire reading, consider these guidelines for writing a summary:\n<ul>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>A summary should&nbsp;contain the main thesis or standpoint of the text, restated in your own words.<\/b> (To do this, first find the thesis statement in the original text.)<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><b>A summary is written in your own words.<\/b> It contains few or no quotes.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><b>A summary is always shorter than the original text, often about 1\/3 as long as the original.<\/b>&nbsp; It is the ultimate fat-free writing.&nbsp; An article or paper may be summarized in a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs. A book may be summarized in an article or a short paper.&nbsp; A very large book may be summarized in a smaller book.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><b>A summary should contain all the major points of the original text<\/b>, and should ignore most of the fine details, examples, illustrations or explanations.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><b>The backbone of any summary is formed by crucial details <\/b>(key names, dates, events, words and numbers). A summary must never rely on vague generalities.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\">If you quote anything from the original text, even an unusual word or a catchy phrase, <b>you need to put whatever you quote in quotation marks (\" \").<\/b><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>A summary must contain <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>only<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b> the ideas of the original text. <\/b>Do not insert any of your own opinions, interpretations, deductions or comments into a summary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>Are you familiar with the phrase, <em>the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Writing a summary of a source is a very similar process to teaching someone the content&#8211;but in this case, the student you&#8217;re teaching is yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarizing<\/strong>&#8211;condensing someone else&#8217;s ideas and putting it into your own shortened form&#8211;allows you to be sure that you&#8217;ve accurately captured the main idea of the text you&#8217;re reading.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Write Summary Statements<\/h2>\n<div class=\"textbox\">\n<p>Use these processes&nbsp;to help you write summary statements:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Underline important information and write key words in margin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Record ideas using a two-column note-taking system. Record questions you have about the text concepts&nbsp;in the&nbsp;left column and answers you find in the reading in the right column.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Identify how concepts relate to what you already know.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Add examples and detail.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>For retaining key ideas as you read, write a summary statement at the end of each paragraph or section.&nbsp;For capturing the major ideas of the entire work, write a summary paragraph (or more) that describes the entire text.<\/p>\n<p>These summary statements will be very useful to draw from in the final step of the reading process, <strong>reviewing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p>For longer, overall summary projects that capture an entire reading, consider these guidelines for writing a summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>A summary should&nbsp;contain the main thesis or standpoint of the text, restated in your own words.<\/b> (To do this, first find the thesis statement in the original text.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><b>A summary is written in your own words.<\/b> It contains few or no quotes.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><b>A summary is always shorter than the original text, often about 1\/3 as long as the original.<\/b>&nbsp; It is the ultimate fat-free writing.&nbsp; An article or paper may be summarized in a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs. 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