Unit 4:Writing the Review of Related Literature

Lesson 3
Summarizing Literature Sources

Practical Research 1
Senior High School Applied - Academic
Why do you
think it is
important to
summarize
information?

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 ● Identify the significance of
Learning summarizing.
Objectives ● Summarize information of a
At the end of the text.
lesson, you should be ● Evaluate the quality of
able to do the
following: summaries.

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1. How can summarizing texts help you in
your research?
2. How do you imagine a research paper with
the researcher having a poor summarizing
skill?

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 Summarizing Literature Sources

Summarizing is when a text is significantly

reduced from its original length but keeps the
key ideas intact and still expressing what the
author meant to explain.

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 ● acts as a guide in putting the
key ideas together
● explains arguments using
Summary and
its Purpose fewer words
● gives supporting ideas
● brings about deeper
understanding

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Remember

The summary features the main

arguments of a text by using
words that are less than the
original text.

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 Good Summary Poor Summary
Uses your own words to Uses the exact words from
explain ideas from the text the original text

Only Includes ideas relevant Includes ideas irrelevant to

to the topic the topic

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 Good Summary Poor Summary

Has shorter and more Has equal or longer length

concise words to the original

Emphasizes main arguments Misses out on the key ideas

of the text of the text

Only contains ideas that are Writes down ideas not

mentioned in the original mentioned in the original
text text
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 How to Write a Good Summary

1. Read the original work carefully before

writing the summary.
2. List down the key ideas of the text using
your own words.
3. Eliminate all information that is unnecessary
and irrelevant.
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 How to Write a Good Summary

4. Compare the summary and the original

work.
5. Start the summary using signal phrases to
introduce the material.

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Tip

You must write the summary

based on how you understand
the text and include the main
argument of the author.

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 These are similar yet distinct
Summarizing,
skills that are commonly used in
Paraphrasing,
and Quoting academic writing, most
especially in research.

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 Summarizing

Summarizing involves writing the core of the

text. The main purpose of summarizing is to
narrow down a text to highlight its main
arguments.

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 Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is a way of using different

words to present the same ideas from the
original text. It is used with short portions of
text, such as sentences and phrases

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 Quoting

Quoting is used to write the exact words used

in a short segment of the original source.

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 Quick Check

1. In your own understanding, what are the

qualities of a good summary?

2. Why are key ideas of the original text

important in summarizing texts?

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 Quick Check

How can you differentiate an inappropriate

paraphrasing to a good paraphrasing?

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 Wrap Up

The purpose of a summary is to

feature the main arguments of a
text using less words than in the
original text.

A good summary is concise, contains

relevant information, and stresses
the key points of the original text.
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 Wrap Up

Other skills related to summarizing

are paraphrasing and quoting.
Paraphrasing is used for shorter
texts, whereas quoting states exactly
what the author mentioned in the
original text.

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 Bibliography
Buckley, Joanne. Fit to Print: The Canadian Student’s Guide to Essay Writing.
Toronto: Nelson, 2004.

Ellison, Carol. Writing Research Papers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.

“Guidelines for Writing a Summary.” Hunter College. Accessed April 18, 2020.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/rwc/handouts/the-writing-process-1/invention/Gu
idelines-for-Writing-a-Summary

“Paraphrasing, Summarising, and Quoting.” UNSW Sydney. Accessed April 18,

2020. https://student.unsw.edu.au/paraphrasing-summarising-and-quoting.

“Summarizing.” University of Manitoba. Accessed April 18, 2020.

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