Distinguishing between fact opinion and summarizing

1. DISTINGUISHING
BETWEEN FACT-
OPINION and
SUMMARIZING

2. Dimas ghiffary
Fadliah
Risa Octaviani

3. DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN
FACT AND OPINION
If a statement can be proved, it is a fact. If a statement tells what someone thinks
or feels about something, it is an opinion. Facts can be proved. Opinions cannot.
When you figure out if a statement is a fact or an opinion, you are distinguishing
between fact and opinion. A fact is something that is true. It can be proved. It can
be checked. An opinion is based on how someone feels. It cannot be proved.
 Facts are statements that can be checked or proved.
• Opinions are statements that cannot be proved. They tell what someone thinks
or feels. Opinions often contain clue words such as think, feel, believe, and
seem. Other common clue words are always, never, all, none, most, least,
greatest, best, and worst.

4. Fact and opinion
Strategy for distinguishing
between fact and opinion
• When you are looking for a fact
ask yourself, “Is this true?” “Can
it be proved?”
• When you are looking for an
opinion, ask yourself, “Does this
tell how someone feels?”
Distinguishing Between Fact
and Opinion
• A statement of fact expresses
only what actually happened, or
what could be proven by
objective data.
• A statement of opinion expresses
an attitude toward something – it
makes a judgment, view, or
conclusion, or gives an opinion
that cannot be proven true or
false

5. Example and quiz
• The sun is a star
• Cable is expensive
• Cats are better than dogs
• Yogurt is a dairy product
• USA lost the Vietnam War
• The US has the largest military in the world
• Coffee tastes good
• Humans are warm-blooded mammals
• Christianity is the best religion
• Putin is a jerk

6. SUMMARIZING

7. What is summarizing?
Summarizing is how we take larger selections of
text and reduce them to their bare essentials:
the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are
worth noting and remembering.
Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in
brief form"; it's the distillation, condensation, or
reduction of a larger work into its primary
notions.

8. What Are We Doing When We Summarize?
We strip away the extra verbiage and
extraneous examples. We focus on the heart of
the matter. We try to find the key words and
phrases that, when uttered later, still manage to
capture the gist of what we've read. We are
trying to capture the main ideas and the crucial
details necessary for supporting them

9. SUMMARIZING
What Usually Happens when
we Summarize
• They write down everything
• They write down next to
nothing
• They give me complete
sentences
• They write way too much
• They don't write enough
• They copy word for word
What should you do when
you summarizing
• Pull out main ideas
• Focus on key details
• Use key words and phrases
• Break down the larger ideas
• Write only enough to
convey the gist
• Take succinct but complete
notes

10. Example of Summarizing

11. The first ever space mission to
Pluto has successfully launched
from Florida.
• Nasa's New Horizon's probe blasted off at 7pm GMT on an Atlas 5
rocket for a nine-year journey to the ninth planet in our Solar System.
The launch was delayed by two days after windy weather and power
problems made take-off conditions impossible. Pluto is the furthest
planet from Earth and it more than three billion miles away. It is the only
one never to have been explored by a spacecraft.
• The probe will move at a speed of 10 miles per second to get to Pluto
by 2015. The craft, which cost £396m ($700m), was the fastest
spacecraft ever launched and was expected to reach Earth's moon in
nine hours and Jupiter in just over a year. New Horizon won't actually
land on Pluto, but will pass close by to take pictures of the icy planet
and beam them back to Earth. It's an unmanned mission, but Nasa has
put an American flag inside the craft and a CD containing the names of
around half a million people who signed up to their website.
ORIGINAL

12. The first space mission to Pluto, the farthest planet
from the Earth, has successfully launched from
Florida. Nasa's New Horizon’s probe blasted off for
a nine-year journey. Pluto has never been explored
by a spacecraft and is expected to get to Pluto by
2015. New Horizon won't actually land on Pluto,
but will take pictures and beam them back to Earth.
Nasa has put an American flag inside the craft and a
CD containing the names of around half a million
people!
SUMMARIZE
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13. QUESTIONS PLEASE?