The document provides guidelines for summarizing academic texts, including establishing a reading purpose, fully understanding the text, using your own words, including only key ideas, highlighting key words and phrases, refraining from adding comments, varying sentence structure, using reporting verbs, eliminating redundant ideas, and properly citing sources. Formats for summarizing include idea heading format, author heading format, and date heading format.

1. Use various techniques in summarizing a
variety of academic texts

2. LET’S VERIFY IT!
DIRECTION:
Write Usually, Sometimes, Seldom or Never
in the following sentences. Do it objectively
(1/4 YP)

3. 1. I establish my reading purpose before I
summarize.
2. I make sure that I fully understand the text
before I summarize.
3. I use my own words in my summary.
4. I include only the key ideas when summarizing.
5. I highlight key words and phrases ad make an
annotations when summarizing.

4. 6. I refrain from adding comments in summarizing.
7. I vary sentence structure when writing a
summary in paragraph form.
8. I use reporting verbs for my summary.
9. I cite sources.
10. I eliminate redundant ideas from the summary.

5. 1. WHAT IS SUMMARIZING?
2. When are we going to
summarize?
3. What are the guidelines in
summarizing?
4. What are the formats in
Summarizing?

6. SUMMARIZING
---it is used often to determine the essential
ideas in a book, article, book chapter, an
article or parts of an article.

7. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO
SUMMARIZE?
 Deepen your understanding of the text
 Identify relevant information or key ideas.
 Combine details or examples that support the main
idea/s
 Concentrate on the gist ( essence) or main idea and
key words presented in the text; and
 Capture the key ideas in the text and put them
together clearly and concisely.

8. You are NOT Summarizing when
 Write down everything.
 Write down ideas from the text word-for-word
 Write down the incoherent and irrelevant
ideas;
 Write down ideas that are not stated in the
text;
 Write down a summary that has the same
length or it is longer than the original text.

9. GUIDELINES IN SUMMARIZING
1. Clarify your purpose before you read.
2. Read the text and understand the meaning. Do not stop
reading until you understand the message conveyed by the
author: Locate the gist or main idea of the text, which can
usually be found either at the beginning, middle or in the
end.
3. Select and underline or circle the key ideas and phrases
while reading; another strategy is to annotate the text

10. 4. Write all the key ideas and phrases you identified on the
margins on your notebook in a bullet form.
5. Without looking at the text, identify the connections of
these key ideas and phrases using a concept map.
6. List your ideas in a sentence form in a concept map.
7. Combine the sentences into a paragraph. Use
appropriate transitional devices to improve cohesion.

11. 8. Ensure that you do not copy a single sentence from the
original text.
9. Refrain from adding comments about the text. Stick to
the ideas it presents.
10. Edit the draft of your summary by eliminating
redundant ideas.
11. Compare your output with the original text to ensure
accuracy.

12. 12. Record the details of the original source (author’s
name/s, date of publication, title, publisher, place of
publishing, and URL (if online). It is not necessary to
indicate the page number/s of the original text in citing
sources in summaries.
13. Format your summary properly. When you combine
your summaries in a paragraph, use different formats to
show variety in writing.

13. FORMATS IN SUMMARIZING
1. IDEA HEADING FORMAT
>>>the summarized idea comes before the
citation.

14. Example:
Benchmarking is a useful strategy that
has the potential to help public
officials improve the performance of
local services (Folz, 2004; Ammons,
2001). Once the practice of the particular
city is benchmarked, it can be a guidepost
and the basis for the other counterparts to
improve its own.

15. 2. AUTHOR HEADING FORMAT
>>the summarized idea comes after the
citation. The author’s name/s is/are
connected by an appropriate reporting verb.

16. Example:
The considerate number of users of FB has led
educators to utilize FB for communicating with their
students (Grant, 2008; as cited in Donmus, 2010).
The study of Kabilan, Ahmad, and Abidin (2010)
shows that the students perceived FB as an
online environment to expedite language
specifically English. Donmus (2010) asserts that
educational games on FB fecundate process and
make students’ learning environment more
engaging.

17. Cont…
As regards literacy, this notion reveals that FB could be
used as a tool to aid individuals execute a range of
social acts through social literacy implementation
(ibid). Blackstone and Hardwood (2012) suggest
the facilitative strength of FB as it elicits greater
engagement on collaboration among students.

18. 3. DATE HEADING FORMAT
>>>the summarized idea comes after the
date when the material was published

19. Example:
On the other hand, active participation of the
citizens in development contributes to a sound
and reasonable government decisions. In their
2004 study on the impact of participatory
development approach, Irvin and Stansbury
argue that participation can be valuable to the
participants and the government in terms of
the process and outcomes of decision making

20. Write S statement describes good
summarizing and N if not.
1. Sean copied everything from the book
2. Tomas extracted the key ides in the text.
3. Red concentrated on the important details.
4. Anita looked for key words and phrases.
5. Sen simplified ideas.
6. Kai revised the main idea.
7. To add more information, Alexa added her analysis and
comments to the ideas of the author.
8. Maria wrote down the general and specific ideas of the text.
9. Sean added some of his related research to the information
presented in the text.
10. Lalaine extended the message of the text and included some
of her interpretations.