Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text.pptx

This contains information on how to summarize text based on the material that you have read. This also includes strategies in summarizing details.

1. Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text

2. What are your group’s techniques in summarizing article like what you have done in your reading? What are the considerations should be followed in writing a summary? How important is having knowledge on summarizing?

3. Summarizing an academic text is a way of deducting or condensing the thoughts of the author into one or two paragraphs approximately 100 to 200 words .

4. Main Goal Present the general sense or idea of the author

5. Focus more on ... Comprehensibility of the words The SIMPLIER AND SHORTER THE BETTER

6. SEVEN TIPS OR TECHNIQUES (Freedman, 2012) Have the title and the name of the author in the first part of the summary.

7. The first and second sentences should include the thesis or main idea of the entire academic text being summarized.

8. In summarizing larger work, observe stages of details and arguments and have the paragraphs follow logic, unity and coherence.

9. Delete the ideas not essential to the entirety of the text. No more examples and specific details.

10. Avoid your own opinions , suggestion and recommendations. Never plagiarize! Learn to paraphrase and recognize the author.