How to summarize a text

 

How to summarize the text.

     To summarize any text, it is recommended to follow several successive steps to do it successfully, and these steps are as follows:

•      Read the original text carefully and carefully.

•      Use a pencil to mark important points and make notes in the margins of the text or on an outer sheet of paper.

•      If a person is working on summarizing an article by a particular writer, he should work on expressing the writer's point of view on the subject.

• After completing all the previous steps, the ideas and observations obtained are collected to form a summary of the text read.

The basics of a correct summary

There are a few principles to keep in mind when summarizing any text, including:

•      Make sure that all important concepts and information are mentioned in the text and that no unimportant information is mentioned.

• Do not repeat any information and remove all duplicate information.

• Try to replace difficult terms with simpler ones.

• Identify and write the main idea of the text.

     The purpose of summarizing texts.

     When summarizing any text, the individual seeks to obtain objective and concise ideas about it, since the summary usually includes only one to three paragraphs, and this depends on the audience for which the text was written, in addition to the size of the original text. . .  There are many reasons that urge the individual to summarize the text, including:

•      Summarizing for the sake of study, where the individual works on writing the major points of the text in order to learn the required material quickly.

•  Some teachers ask students to summarize a text to make sure they have worked on it.

•      Summarizing is also used to write academic and research articles to review and summarize the information that has been written about a research topic.