Summarizing
When you summarize a piece of writing,
you use your own words to
express the main points in the text. A summary is always shorter than the
original text.
When you write a summary:
Focus on the main points in the reading
Don't include details or examples.
Use your own words.
Keep the author's viewpoint.
Hint! You might need to create the topic sentence for your summary from
a combination of several points in the original.