This document provides guidance on choosing an appropriate topic to summarize a text. It advises selecting a topic that is the central idea being discussed in the text, neither too general that the text cannot reasonably cover it, nor too specific that it is only briefly mentioned as an example.

1. UNDERSTANDING THE TOPIC

6. Choose a topic
that is being
talked about and
is the central
idea of the text.

7. Don’t choose a
topic that is
too general,
i.e., the text
cannot cover.

8. Don’t choose a
topic that is too
specific, i.e., it’s
ONLY mentioned
as an example.

9. READING IS FUN