3.2 SUMMARIZING Apart from information about paragraph patterns of organization. and outlining your paragraphs and passages, summarizing will help you understand the whole picture of what you have read or when you want to provide your readers of your Writing
Summarizing Text n this lesson, you will discover that you can retell a story in just a few sentences and still hit the most important points!
A SUMMARY is a short retelling of a longer written passage. containing the authors most important ideas summarizing helps improve both your reading and writing skills. To summarize, you must read a passage closely, finding the main ideas and supporting ideas. Then you must write down those ideas in a few sentences or a short paragraph It is important to understand the difference between a summary and a paraphrase. A paraphrase is simply a rewriting of a passage in your own words. A summary, on the other hand, contains only the main idea and the supporting ideas of a passage. A summary will be much shorter than a paraphrase.
How to Summarize a Paragraph
1) view and read: You preview and read the paragraph closely, you probably find that you need to read the paragraph more than one time of
2) Make a Tist or obtine: You determine the main idea and the supporting details the paragraph. Then, you make a list or outline of these ideas with your own words
3) Write a summary. Then, you use your list and write a summary of the paragraph by stating the main ideas, followed by important ideas. Your summary should be limited to just one or two sentences. before correcting any
4) Read aloud and correct: Now you read th.e summary aloud mistakes.