Outcome: Summary Skills

Identify Summary Strategies for Reading Comprehension

You’re most likely familiar with summaries. Being able to accurately summarize a reading to someone else is the ultimate demonstration that you understand the reading’s contents.

What You Will Learn to Do

  • identify annotation strategies
  • identify strategies to paraphrase a text’s thesis statement
  • identify strategies to identify and quote significant passages from a text
  • identify strategies to distinguish a text’s major claims from minor ones
  • identify strategies to convey the essential features of a text to someone who hasn’t read it

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