PRE-TEST ON THESIS STATEMENT

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

• a. The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage

• b. The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.

• c. The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage

• d. The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage

Summarizing is an important skill because it helps you……. EXCEPT ONE.

• a. Deepen your understanding of the text

• b. Learn to identify irrelevant information or key ideas

• c. Combine details or examples that support the main ideas/s.

• d. Concentrate on the gist or main idea and key words presented in the text.

Which of the following is NOT a use of summarizing?

• a. Reviewing a long text, speech, or video

• b. Writing an abstract

• c. Preparing notes for a study guide

• d. Creating a blog

In writing a summary, it should be ____________.

• a. comprehensive, concise, coherent, and independent

• b. comprehensive, concise, coherent, and intelligent

• c. comprehensive, concise, considerate, and independent

• d. comprehensive, complicated, coherent, and independent

Who among the following is doing a good summarizing?

• a. Sean copied everything from the book.

• b. Rina revised the main idea. .

• c. Paul extracted the key points

• d. Michael extended the message of the text and included some of her interpretations

Which of the following is NOT a technique in summarizing a short text?

• a. Outline the text.

• b. Formulate a single sentence that summarizes the whole text.

• c. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it with the paragraph summary sentences.

• d. Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to make it clear and concise, to eliminate repetition and relatively minor points, and to provide transitions

Which of the following is a technique in summarizing a long text?

• a. Outline the text. .

• b. Formulate a single sentence that summarizes the whole text

• c. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it with the paragraph summary sentences.

• d. Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to make it clear and concise, to eliminate repetition and relatively minor points, and to provide transitions.

One tried-and-true method to help writers isolate important information.

• a. Magnet Summary

• b. Journalist Questions

• c. Somebody Wanted But So

• d. GIST Summary

This strategy helps writers generalize, recognize cause and effect relationships, and find main ideas.

• a. Magnet Summary

• b. Journalist Questions

• c. Somebody Wanted But So

• d. GIST Summary

A summarizing strategy requires writers to pare down information into a 20- word summary.

• a. GIST Summary

• b. Somebody Wanted But So

• c. Journalist Questions

• d. Magnet Summary