This document discusses what a summary is and how to write one. A summary is used to determine the essential ideas from a text by identifying the key points and main ideas in 3 sentences or less without copying verbatim. To write an effective summary, one should clarify the purpose, read the full text to understand it, highlight key ideas and phrases, write those ideas without copying sentences, eliminate redundant information, check for accuracy, and properly format the summary including citing the source.

1. WHAT IS A SUMMARY?
BASICSOFSUMMARIZING

2. WHAT IS A SUMMARY?

3. An important
skill in CRITICAL
READING.
Often used to
DETERMINE the
essentials ideas
in a book, article,
book chapter, an
article or parts of
an article.

4. SUMMARIZING HELPS YOU TO:
Deepen your understanding of the text
Identify relevant information and key ideas
Combine details that support the main idea/s
Concentrate on the gist/ main idea/ key
words presented in the text
Putting the key ideas in the text clearly
and concisely

5. WHAT IS NOT A
SUMMARY?

6. Writes down
everything
Writes down ideas from
the text word-for-word
Writes down incoherent
and irrelevant ideas
Write down ideas that
are not stated in the text
Write down a summary
that has the same length
or is longer than the
original text

7. GUIDELINES IN SUMMARIZING
CLARIFY
YOUR
PURPOSE
BEFORE
YOU
READ
READ THE
TEXT AND
UNDERSTAND
THE
MEANING
SELECT
AND
HIGHLIGHT
THE KEY
IDEAS/
PHRASES
WHILE
READING
WRITE
ALL THE
KEY
IDEAS
AND
PHRASES
ENSURE
THAT YOU
DO NOT
COPY A
SINGLE
SENTENCE
FROM THE
ORIGINAL
TEXT

8. GUIDELINES IN SUMMARIZING
ELIMINATE
REDUNDANT
IDEAS
COMPARE TO
ENSURE
ACCURACY
RECORD
THE
DETEAILS
OF THE
ORIGINAL
SOURCE
- AUTHOR’S
NAMES
- DATE OF PUB.
- TITLE
- PUBLISHER
- PLACE OF
PUBLISHING
- URL
FORMAT
YOUR
SUMMARY
PROPERLY

9. FORMATS IN SUMMARIZING
1. IDEA HEADING
2. AUTHOR HEADING
3. DATE HEADING

10. 1.
IDEA
HEADING

11. 2.
AUTHOR
HEADIN
G
FORMAT

12. 3.
DATE
HEADIN
G
FORMAT

13. LET’S GRILL THE TEXT!

14. KEY TO CORRECTION
1. N
2. S
3. S
4. S
5. S