LESSON 3: TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING

VARIETY OF ACADEMIC TEXT

Summary
It is an academic paper that contains a concise
statement or account of the main points of a text
Summarizing
Refers to the strategy we used on how we take
larger selections of text and reduce them to
their bare essential: the gist, the key ideas, or
the main points that are worth noting and
remembering.
BASIC RULES:
1. Erase things that don't matter.
2. Erase things that repeat.
3. Trade general terms for specific names. (E.g. flowers
instead of roses, tulips, daisies, etc.)
4. Use your own words to write the summary.
Paraphrasing
means 'to state something written or spoken in different
words, especially in a shorter and simpler form to make the
meaning clearer'. (Cambridge Online Dictionary, 2022)
 Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text
1. SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO
The strategy helps students generalize, recognize cause and
effect relationships, and find main ideas.
AFTER ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS, COMBINE
THE ANSWERS TO FORM A SUMMARY
Little Red Riding Hood wanted to take cookies to her
sick grandmother, but she encountered a wolf. The
wolf pretended to be her grandmother. He was
going to eat Little Red Riding Hood. Realizing this,
Red Riding Hood ran away and cries for help. A
woodsman heard the girl's cries and saved her from
the wolf.
 Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text
2. SAAC METHOD
SAAC - State, Assign, Action, Complete -- the specific element
that should be included in the summary.
This method is helpful in summarizing any kind of text.
USING THE SAAC CUES TO WRITE THE SUMMARY
OF "THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF"

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Aesop (A Greek

storyteller), tells what happens when a shepherd boy
repeatedly lies to the villagers about seeing a wolf.
After a while, they ignore his false cries. Then, when
a wolf really does attack, they don't come to help
him.
 Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text
3. 5W'S, 1
The technique relies on six crucial questions: WHO, WHAT, WHEN,
WHERE, WHY, and HOW.
Try this technique in the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare"
 Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text
4. FIRST THEN FINALLY
This technique helps the students summarize events in
chronological order.
First: What happened first? Include the main
character and main event/ action.
Then: What key details took place during the event/
action?
Finally: What were the results of the event/action?
HERE IS THE EXAMPLE OF FIRST THEN FINALLY
METHOD USING "GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE
BEARS"

First, Goldilocks entered the bear's home while they

were gone. Then, she ate their food, sat in their
chairs, and slept in their beds. Finally, she woke up
to find the bears watching her, so she jumped up and
ran away.
 Techniques in Summarizing Academic Text

5. GIVE ME THE GIST

This type of technique is like giving a

friend the gist of the story. In other words,
they want a summary -- not a retelling of
every detail.
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