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Summarizing

Summarizing. Why we use it and how to do it. Summarizing. Why? To help you understand what you are reading. To know what information should be included in your research . . Summarizing. How? Identify the main idea in the information. Identify key details of the main idea.

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Summarizing

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  1. Summarizing Why we use it and how to do it.

  2. Summarizing • Why? • To help you understand what you are reading. • To know what information should be included in your research.

  3. Summarizing • How? • Identify the main idea in the information. • Identify key details of the main idea. • Re-write that information in your own words.

  4. Summarizing • Questions to ask yourself: • Who/What is this about? • What about them/it? • When? • Where? • Why did it happen? • How did it happen? • Note: Not all questions will apply

  5. Summarizing • Turn to your partner . . . • Each partner should give one reason why summarizing is important.

  6. Summarizing • Practice: • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

  7. Summarizing • Practice: • Who/What? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

  8. Summarizing • Practice: • What about it? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

  9. Summarizing • Practice: • When? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. • Hhmm . . . It doesn’t say . . .

  10. Summarizing • Practice: • Where? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. • Hhmm . . . It doesn’t say . . .

  11. Summarizing • Practice: • Why? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. • Hhmm . . . It doesn’t say . . .

  12. Summarizing • Practice: • How? • By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

  13. Summarizing • Practice: • Re-Write in my own words: • Scientists say the earth is about 4 1/2 billion years old.

  14. Summarizing • Practice: • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  15. Summarizing • Practice: • Who/What? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  16. Summarizing • Practice: • What about them? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  17. Summarizing • Practice: • What about them? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  18. Summarizing • Practice: • When? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  19. Summarizing • Practice: • When? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  20. Summarizing • Practice: • Where? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside. • It doesn’t say

  21. Summarizing • Practice: • Why? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  22. Summarizing • Practice: • Why? • Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

  23. Summarizing • Practice: • How? • Until about a decade ago, that doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside. • It doesn’t say

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