In his draft, Jorge summarized research materials that presented scientists’ findings about low-carbohydrate diets. Is important to remain objective because you are giving the author’s views not your own. Challenges you to paraphrase or use your own words and avoid using too many quotations.Challenges you to be concise in your writing while providing balanced coverage of the main points.Helps you remember because you must attend carefully to what you read, organize your thoughts, and write them out to make it meaningful to you (This is absolutely necessary when you cannot mark a book because it belongs to someone else.).Is valuable because it is the surest way to measure your understanding.Includes only the main points and key details.Tip: A summary or abstract of a reading passage is one-tenth to one-quarter the length of the original passage, written in your own words. You have to read the entire source or section of the source and determine for yourself what the key and supporting ideas are. What may also happen if you try to summarize the abstract is you will probably end up replacing some words with synonyms and not changing the overall ideas into your own words because the ideas are already summarized, and it is difficult to make them more generalized (we will discuss this more in Section 3.3: Paraphrasing). The author of the abstract identified the main points from his or her perception these may not match your own purpose or your own idea of what is important. Be careful when you are summarizing an article to not depend too much on the abstract as it is already a condensed version of the content. When you read many journal articles, you will notice there is an abstract before the article starts: this is a summary of the article’s contents. Guessing where you think you got it from is not good enough.
It is much easier to do this when you are creating the summary and taking notes than having to go back and hunt for the information later. Make a careful record of where you found the information because you will need to include the reference and citation if you choose to use the information in an essay.Check your summary to make sure it is accurate and complete.Depending on your purpose, you may also add another sentence or two condensing any important details or examples. Identify the main idea and restate it as concisely as you can-preferably in one sentence.Review the source material as you summarize it.To create a summary, consider the following points: This technique is appropriate when only the major ideas are relevant to your paper or when you need to simplify complex information into a few key points for your readers. When summarizing material from a source, you zero in on the main points and restate them concisely in your own words. When you summarize, you are filtering and condensing the most necessary points from a source, like a book, article, or website. You will follow Jorge on the steps to creating his paper, starting with his summary. In this section and in other places throughout this book, you will meet Jorge, who has been assigned a paper on low-carbohydrate papers. In Chapter 2: Working with Words, you practised identifying main and supporting ideas, which is necessary for your understanding and for creating a summary of the information you have read once you have identified what you think the important ideas are, you can transfer that information into a new paragraph, putting the original source’s ideas into your own words or what is called paraphrasing. Identify and avoid the challenges of creating summaries.Explain and apply the criteria for making a summary.
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