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Eapp Lesson 3 Summarizing

Summarizing involves distilling larger texts to their essential ideas and key points, which aids in memory retention and the integration of important information for academic writing. Various techniques such as the SAAC method and the 5 W's, 1 H approach help in identifying main ideas and organizing summaries effectively. The goal is to provide a concise overview without unnecessary details, akin to giving someone the gist of a story.

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Eapp Lesson 3 Summarizing

Summarizing involves distilling larger texts to their essential ideas and key points, which aids in memory retention and the integration of important information for academic writing. Various techniques such as the SAAC method and the 5 W's, 1 H approach help in identifying main ideas and organizing summaries effectively. The goal is to provide a concise overview without unnecessary details, akin to giving someone the gist of a story.

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• Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text

and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the


key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and
remembering.
• Summarizing is a skill that you need to possess as learners of
academic writing. Aside from the fact that summarizing
improves one’s memory of a reading text, it also helps a lot
in identifying relevant information and integrating essential
ideas in making meaningful write ups.
Trade, general Use your own
Erase things that Erase things that terms for specific words to write the
don’t matter. repeat. names. summary.
• Delete trivial • Delete redundant • Substitute superordinate • Write the summary
material that is material. In note terms for lists (e.g., using your own
taking, time and space flowers for daisies). words but make
unnecessary to
is precious. If a word or Focus on the big sure to retain the
understanding. phrase says basically picture. Long, technical
main points.
the same thing you lists are hard to
have already written remember. If one word
down, then don’t write will give you the
it again! meaning, then less is
more.
• Somebody Wanted But So
• SAAC Method
• 5 W's, 1 H
• First Then Finally
• Give Me the Gist
The strategy helps students
generalize, recognize cause
and effect relationships, and
find main ideas.
This method is particularly helpful in
summarizing any kind of text. SAAC is an
acronym for “State, Assign, Action,
Complete.” Each word in the acronym
refers to a specific element that should be
included in the summary.
This technique relies on six crucial
questions: who, what, when where,
why, and how. These questions make
it easy to identify the main character,
important details, and main idea.
This technique helps 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?
First, Goldilocks entered the bears'
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.
This type of techniques is like giving a
friend the gist of a story. In other
words, they want a summary – not a
retelling of every detail.
Summarizing is reducing a larger selection but retaining the main
points. (10 points)
In a paragraph, summarize your personal experiences as senior high
school student. Use a technique the best fits the nature of the
summary you are writing.

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