EAPP: TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING A VARIETY OF ACADEMIC TEXTS

EAPP: TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING A VARIETY OF ACADEMIC TEXTS

Learning Competency:

Uses various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts.

Lesson Objectives:

• define summarizing and summary from various writers; 

• identify the various techniques in summarizing; and 

• summarize various academic texts.

Let's have a PRACTICE TEST :)

Multiple Choice

Identify which of the following supports the principle of summarizing.

We use summarizing to:

• Retell a story

• Reduce information to essential ideas

• Get through an article more quickly

• Understand easily

Multiple Choice

When summarizing, we want to ____ unimportant information.

• Summarize

• Highlight

• Disregard

• Disregard

Multiple Choice

The main idea is ___.

• All the information provided

• The most important information

• Nothing to worry about

• Unimportant information

Multiple Choice

Basic Signal words are Who, What, When, Where, Why, How

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

The ____ gives the reader an idea about what the paragraph is going to be about.

• Concluding sentence

• Summary

• Topic sentence

• Body

PRE - WRITING ACTIVITY

Try to recall one of the novels or short stories you discussed in one of your previous classes in English; choose one selection out of the several you tackled throughout your school life. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, try to rewrite the story using your own words.

Did you find the retelling of the story difficult? Why or why not?

What strategies did you employ in order to retell the story? Did you find these strategies helpful? Why or why not?

Open Ended

^{In your own understanding, what is Summarizing?}

What is SUMMARIZING?

From dictionaries, it is defined as taking a lot of information and creating a condensed version that covers the main points; and to express the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form.

Open Ended

When SUMMARIZING is useful?

When summarizing is useful?

• ^{Summarizing is used to support an argument, provide context for a paper’s thesis, write literature reviews, and annotate a bibliography.}

• ^{The benefit of summarizing lies in showing the "big picture," which allows the reader to contextualize what you are saying. In addition to the advantages of summarizing for the reader, as a writer you gain a better sense of where you are going with your writing, which parts need elaboration, and whether you have comprehended the information you have collected.}

Please study the whole lesson and be ready for your activity :)