Summarizing: Say it in brief

Facilitator: Dr.Manjushree Sardeshpande

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html

Questions:

1.What is summarizing?


2. Till how long would you go on reducing your summary?


3.What is the newspaper mantra?

Web site: 

http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/AEP/EN104/summary.htm

Questions:

1.What should be done before writing a summary?


2. How do you write the introductory paragraph?


3.What is the difference between a one paragraph summary and a multiparagraph summary?

Web site: 

 http://www.mrshatzi.com/files/summary.pdf

Questions:

1. What is a thesis statement?


2.What should be avoided while writing a summary?


3.Read the article on "Bats" and see how it has been summarized. Is it just paraphrased?

http://www.enotes.com/topics/how-write-summary

Questions

1.What do you understand by Divide.....and conquer?

2. What are transition words?

3. Should you provide a critique in the summary?

The Big Question:

 What are the different steps of summarising?

Created by: DR. Manjushree Sardeshpande
Updated: 4/20/14

Exercise: Summarize the given paragraph.

“The Northern Lights”

There are times when the night sky glows with bands of color. The bands may

begin as cloud shapes and then spread into a great arc across the entire sky. They

may fall in folds like a curtain drawn across the heavens. The lights usually grow

brighter, then suddenly dim. During this time the sky glows with pale yellow, pink,

green, violet, blue, and red. These lights are called the Aurora Borealis. Some

people call them the Northern Lights. Scientists have been watching them for

hundreds of years. They are not quite sure what causes them. In ancient times

people were afraid of the Lights. They imagined that they saw fiery dragons in the

sky. Some even concluded that the heavens were on fire.

These tasks would enable the students to learn the skill of summarizing.