SPEAKER 1

One important skill in critical reading is summarizing. Now, what is

summarizing? Well first, summarizing is used to determine the essential ideas
in an article, book, and other texts. It helps the reader to get the central idea or
the gist, usefull information, words, or phrases that would lead him to meet his
reading purpose. Moreover, it teaches the reader on how to take a large
selection of text and reduce or codense it to the main points for more concise
understanding. Second, summarizing is usually done after reading the whole
text but others do it while they are reading. Of course it would be difficult to
summarize a text if you as a reader have not yet fully understand the message
that the text or the author wants to convey. Before you will summarize the
selection that you have read, you must first assure that you have deeply
comprehend its message and central idea. And lastly, summarizing develop
some of our critical reading skills such as deepening our understanding about
the text, identifying more relevant ideas, combining details that would support
the main idea, focusing on the gist presented in the text, and condesing the
text into its more clear and concise form.

SPEAKER 2

Summarizing is a critical reading skill that is used to determine the

essential details of a text such as the main idea and usefull information that
would help the reader to meet his purpose. Also, it teaches the reader on how
to condense a text through key points for more comprehensive reading.
Another is that summarizing is generally done after reading the whole text.
However it can be done as well while reading. Lastly, summarizing hones our
critical reading skills like identifying relevant ideas, combining details, and
reducing a lengthly text into its more brief structure.

SPEAKER 3

Summarizing is a critical skill that helps a reader condense or compress

a text through analyzing the main idea and consolidating it briefly. This skill
can be done during, or after reading. Generally, this skill requires reading skills
like filtering for relevant informations, merging details and making shorter
version of the text.