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Techniques in

Summarizing
Academic Texts
Techniques in Summarizing
Academic Texts
 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. Webster's calls
a summary the "general idea in brief form"; it's
the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a
larger work into its primary notions. (“Reading
Quest Strategies | Summarizing”)
Basic Rules:
A. Erase things that don’t matter. Delete
trivial material that is unnecessary to
understanding.
Example:
Original: Alicia is a fifteen-year-old young
lady who lives downtown. Her parents and
siblings died in car accident where she was
the only one who survived.
Summarized: Alicia is a fifteen-year-old
Basic Rules:
B. Erase things that repeat.
Delete redundant material. In
note taking, time and space is
precious. If a word or phrase says
basically the same thing you
have already written down, then
don’t write it again!
Basic Rules:

Example:

It was midnight when I started


writing her biography. I tried to
recall all that she told me about
herself and summarized them to
sustain the attention span of my
readers.
Basic Rules:
C. Trade, general terms for specific
names. Substitute superordinate terms
for lists (e.g., flowers for daisies, tulips
for roses). Focus on the big picture.
Long, technical lists are hard to
remember. If one word will give you
the meaning, then less is more.
Basic Rules:

Original: Mom, dad, ate,


kuya, and me enjoy playing
chess, monopoly, Rubik's
cube, and cards while eating
pansit, puto, bibingka, and
sago’t gulaman during
Basic Rules:

Summarized: My family
loves to play indoor games
while eating local snacks
during weekends.
Basic Rules:
D. Use your own words to
write the summary. Write the
summary using your own
words but make sure to retain
the main points.
Basic Rules:
Example: Malerie sat on the couch and
carefully looked over the pictures from the
shoot. She zoomed in and out and tried
different filters. It wasn’t easy to pick the
best, all of them were pretty great, but
finally she made a decision.
Then she opened Instagram, selected the
picture she wanted and carefully typed her
caption.
Basic Rules:
“Wow, guys! Thank you so much for
all the birthday wishes! It feels so
good to be 21!” She proceeded to
add twenty-one hearts to her
caption, then hit post.
“Perfect!” She smiled, and rewarded
herself with another piece of
birthday cake.
Summarized:

Malerie celebrated her 21st birthday.


She had a photoshoot and from the
photos taken, she chose one which she
posted on Instagram and expressed
her appreciation to all her friends who
sent her birthday greetings.
Summarizing
Techniques
Technique1. Somebody Wanted
But So.
The strategy helps
students generalize,
recognize cause and effect
relationships, and find
main ideas.
Somebody Wanted But So Then
(Who is the (What did the (What was the (How was the (Tell how the
text about?) main character problem problem story ends.)
want?) encountered?) solved?)

Little Red She wanted She encountered She ran away, A woodsman
Riding Hood to take a wolf that crying for heard her and
wanted to eat
cookies to her her pretending
help. saved her
sick to be her from the wolf.
grandmother. grandmother.
Technique 2: SAAC (State,
Assign, Action, Complete)
Method
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.
State Assign Action Complete
(the name of the (the name of the (what the author is (complete the
article, book, or author) doing (example: sentence or
story) tells, explains) summary with
keywords and
important details)

“The Boy Who Cried Aesop (a Greek tells what happens when a
Wolf” storyteller) shepherd boy
repeatedly lies to the
villagers about seeing
a wolf
Technique 3: 5 W's, 1 H

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
Who is What did When did Where Why did How did
the story they do? the action did the the main the main
about? take story character character
place? happen? do what do what
s/he did? s/he did?
The He raced When An old The The
tortoise a quick, isn’t country tortoise tortoise
boastful specified road was tired kept up
hare and in this of his slow
won. story, so hearing but
it’s not the hare steady
importan boast pace.
t in this about his
case. speed.
4. First Then Finally.
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?
Technique 4: First Then Finally.
Here is an example using "Goldilocks and the
Three Bears."
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.
Relating the lesson to Ordinal
numbers
An ordinal number is a number
that indicates the position or
order of something in relation to
other numbers, like, first, second,
third, and so on. This order or
sequence may be according to the
size, importance, or any chronology.
Technique 5: Give Me the Gist

 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. You
are now equipped on how to
summarize. Here is what you
should do next.
5. Give Me the Gist
When someone asks for "the gist" of a story, they
want to know what the story is about. In other
words, they want a summary—not a retelling of
every detail. To introduce the gist method, explain
that summarizing is just like giving a friend the gist
of a story, and have your students tell each other
about their favorite books or movies in 15 seconds
or less. You can use the gist method as a fun, quick
way to practice summarizing on a regular basis.
Reminder:
 Inwriting your summary consider the different
sentence structures that you have learned when
you were in your Junior High School.
 Sentence structure is the order of all the parts
in a sentence: subject, predicate, objects,
phrases, punctuation, etc. It deals a lot with
independent and dependent clauses and how they
combine (explained below), the placement of words
and phrases next to what they modify, as well as
the use of proper grammar.
Activity 3. Direction: Read the text below. Write a 3-
5 sentence summary of the following text using any
of the techniques mentioned above. Use a separate
sheet in writing your summary.

Understanding Calories
Activity 4. Direction: In a paragraph, write
your experience during the first week of school.
Use a technique that best fits the nature of the
summary you are writing. Please be guided by
the suggested criteria for scoring:
Concept
20 pts.
Convention
15 pts.
Creativity and Organization 15 pts.
Total
50 pts.
Test II. Direction: From the
same reading text above, titled
“From the Autopsy Surgeon’s
Report”, write a 2-3 sentences
summary using any technique
of your choice. Use a separate
sheet of paper.

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