Monday, April 6, 2009

Summarizing

Putting a text in your own words in a shortened form in a shortened form (Table of contents / Index)

What to do first
1. Skim the text (table of contents / index)
2. Pick out the main ideas
3. Find Topic sentence (main idea of Paragraph)

Questions to ask yourself?
1. What happened? (Where?) (When?) (Why?)
2. What is involved?
3. What was the outcome / consequence?
4. Is the essential piece of information included?

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