Summarizing Academic Text

English for Academic and Professional

Purposes
Report By: Group I
Bantayan, Erlino & Cansancio, Floramae
 SUMMARY
A summary is a restatement of
someone elses words, in your
own words.
PURPOSE:

Summarizing helps us to understand the text

better, by finding the most important words
and information.
To improve and exercise our skills.
Summarizing helps us to love reading
prepared us in a professional and personal
purposes.
Basic Rules in Summarizing:
1. Erase things that don’t matter. Delete trivial material
that is unnecessary to understanding.
2. Only write down important points. If it is not something
that will help you understand or remember, then don’t
write it down.
3. Erase things that repeat. Delete redundant material.
4. Trade, general terms for specific names. Substitute super
ordinate terms for lists (e.g., flowers for daisies, tulips for
roses)
5. Use your own words to write the summary. Do not just
copy the sentences from the original text. However, do not
inject your opinion in your summary.
 Techniques:
• Outlining
An outline is a map of your essay. It shows what
information each section or paragraph will contain
and in what order.
I. Main Idea
A. Supporting Details
B. Supporting Details
II. Main Idea
A. Supporting Details
B. Supporting Details.
Somebody Wanted But So Then. Each word represents
a key question related to a text’s essential elements:
Somebody—Who is the text about?

Wanted—What did the main character want?

But—What was the problem encountered?

So—How was the problem solved?

Then—How did it end?

1. SAAC method
This method is particularly helpful in learning the format
of a summary. This includes the title and author’s name.
State— The name of the article, book, movie

Assign—the name of the author

Action—what the author is doing (ex. Tells, explains)

Complete—complete the sentence or summary with

keywords and important details.
5W’s, 1 H. This technique relies on six crucial questions:
Who, What, When, Where, Why, How. These questions make
it easy to identify the main character, important details and main
idea.

Who is the text about?

What did he/she do?
When did it happen?
Why did he/she do it?
How did he/she do or what he/she did?
Thank you and God bless!