ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL

PURPOSES
MR. KETH A. VILLANUEVA

Week 3:Uses various techniques in summarizing a

variety of academic texts
Situation 1: Your English teacher told you to read a
story which contains 20 pages. You are tasked to
know the story in a day. What will you do?

Situation 2: Marites shares the overheard stories from

her constituents namely Marta, Dora and Duday. What
do you think does Marites use when she shares the story
for a minute?
 Learning Objectives

1. Define what summarizing is;

2. Identify the techniques in summarizing

and;

3. Identify the purpose of summarizing

 SUMMARIZING
Is a shortened version of an original text. Summarizing involves taking a
large portion of a text and reducing it into shorter version that presents
the central ideas and key points of the original text.

Buckley (2004), in her popular writing text Fit to Print, defines

summarizing as reducing text to one-third or one-quarter its original size,
clearly articulating the author’s meaning, and retaining main ideas. Diane
Hacker (2008), in A Canadian Writer’s Reference, explains that
summarizing involves stating a work’s thesis and main ideas “simply,
briefly, and accurately” (p. 62).
TECHNIQUES IN WRITING A
SUMMARY
1. Read and understand
the original text.

2. Make an outline of all

the main ideas.

3. Re-read while taking

notes.
4. Organize your notes 7. Check the summary
for accuracy

5. Write a thesis
statement for a
summary

6. Write a draft of the

summary
 ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
SUMMARIZING

INFOGRAPHICS
GRAPHIC
VISUAL FORMATS ORGANIZERS
PURPOSE OF SUMMARIZING
The purpose is to
briefly present the
key points of a
theory or work in
order to provide
context for your
argument/thesis.
 When is
summarizing
useful? Justify.
READERS WRITERS
 MAIN IDEA

SUPPORTING SUPPORTING SUPPORTING

DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS
VALUES CHECK!

How summarizing relate to our

life?
 REFERENCES

• https://www.academia.edu/36868944/Summarizing_NEW?pop_sutd=false

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=1aoXigVzveg&list=PLTLYWbi7QYu5EC0JzX29U0GJgILQ9Sx0g&index=3