The document discusses techniques for summarizing academic texts, emphasizing the importance of condensing the author's ideas into 100 to 200 words. Key strategies include mentioning the title and author, stating the thesis in the first two sentences, and maintaining logical coherence while omitting non-essential details. It also highlights the need to paraphrase adequately and avoid personal opinions to prevent plagiarism.

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.