1. Theme:
Summarizing essay

2. • Is a shortened version • Is to take larger
of a text that focuses on selections of text and
the thesis or main idea. reduce them to their
• It does not include condensed parts
many details or referring to their main
examples; points.
• It does not include • It is to make a summary
personal opinions. of what the book is
about, using your own
words.

3. Why to summarize?
essential ideas in order to:
To reduce information to
Understand and learn
Comprehension
important information
Expand the breadth or
Communication
depth of your writing

4. What is not to What do we expect
summarize from a summary?
• To write down everything • Take out the main ideas
• To write different ideas • Focus on the details
that the ones stated on • Use key words and
the original writing phrases
• To write complete • Brake down the larger
sentences ideas
• To write too little that the • Write only enough to
sense of the text is convey the gist
missing. • Take only enough to
• To copy word by word. convey the gist
• Take succinct but
complete notes

5. The steps for summarizing
D Disregard
unimportant information
I Identify A Analyze
supporting details redundant information
M
S
Main idea: identify Topic
sentence (if there is
one) or use basic signal
MIDAS Simplify, categorize, and
label important
information
words

6. The topic sentence
It introduces the main
idea and the
controlling idea which
is your idea or opinion
about the main idea.
It controls what
It may not always be so you write in the
clearly stated, and it can rest of the
come in the middle or paragraph.
end of a paragraph
All the sentences in
the paragraph must
relate to, describe, or
illustrate the
controlling idea in the
topic sentence.

7. Main Idea
Supporting detail Supporting detail
Supporting detail Supporting detail

8. How to plan your summary?
Ask and answer Wh-questions
Who? What Where? When? Why? How
Subject Action Location Time Reason Process

9. Summarizing
Let’s practice
One paragraph at a time…
Summarizing_ppoint.ppt

10. Example paragraphs…
A tornado is a powerful, twisting windstorm. It
begins high in the air, among the winds of a
giant storm cloud. People who have watched a
tornado’s howling winds reach down from the
sky have said it’s the most frightening thing
they have ever seen. In some parts of the
United States, these windstorms are called
twisters or cyclones.

11. Main idea and supporting details
Tornado is
powerful, twisting
windstorm
Also called
Part of giant
Frightening twister
storm cloud
or cyclone

12. Sentence Summary…
Tornadoes are
frightening, powerful, twisting
windstorms sometimes called
twisters or cyclones that start in
giant storm clouds.

13. Tornadoes cont…
Tornadoes are not the only whirling
windstorms that move through the
earth’s air. Dust devils, hurricanes and
typhoons all have twisting winds. But
these windstorms differ from
tornadoes in important ways.

14. Main idea and supporting details
Dust devils, hurricanes,
and typhoons have
twisting winds
Whirling windstorms Differ from tornadoes

15. Sentence Summary…
Dust devils, hurricanes and typhoons also
have twisting winds, but they are
different from tornadoes.

16. Thanks for attending the class!
Have a nice day!