Essential Question: What is an objective

summary?
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Common Core Reading 2. Determine a central idea of a
text and provide an objective summary of the text.
summary:
a brief, more concise restatement of
the most important information or
main ideas of a text;
synopsis; outline; abstract;
condensation; summation; brief
(the noun)
objective:
based on facts rather than feelings or
opinions; not influenced by feelings
impartial; unbiased; fair;
unprejudiced; neutral
(an adjective)
concise:
using as few words as possible;
free from all elaboration and
superfluous details
succinct; terse; curt
(an adjective)
What makes a good summary?

Essentially, a summary is a condensed version of something,
usually a text. A good summary is concise, focusing on the main
ideas, and leaving out much of the supporting and explanatory
detail of the original text.

A good summary is also complete, covering all of the important
ideas found in the primary text.

Moreover, a summary should be objective; the goal should be to
cover the text fairly, without inserting one's own opinion or
perspective. For this reason, a summary is not really an essay. An
essay requires the writer to create an original text, as in an
argument wherein one asserts a point of view, or a research paper
in which one synthesizes and analyzes the work of many others.
What makes a good summary?

Essentially, a summary is a condensed version of something,
usually a text. A good summary is concise, focusing on the main
ideas, and leaving out much of the supporting and explanatory
detail of the original text.

A good summary is also complete, covering all of the important
ideas found in the primary text.

Moreover, a summary should be objective; the goal should be to
cover the text fairly, without inserting one's own opinion or.
Now I am taking what I believe are the MAIN ideas and
rewriting them in a shorter version. (See the next slide.)
What makes a good summary?

A good summary is a condensed version that is concise, focusing
on the main ideas, and leaving out unnecessary details.

It is complete with all of the important ideas of the original.

It should be objective and cover the text fairly, without opinion.
Writing a Concise Summary:

A concise summary is one in which the author's main ideas have
been captured in a few well-chosen words, and supporting details
have been characterized in a general way or reduced to a few
representative details. A good strategy for capturing the key
ideas is to go through the entire text and write the main point of
each paragraph in the margin or on note paper. Then, go over
your notes and ask yourself how each paragraph fits into the
author's overall project: Why is it there? How does the paragraph
advance the author's argument or goal? This step of shifting
from what is there, to why it is there is absolutely essential in a
good summary, for it will help you to characterize the work as a
whole, showing how the parts fit together.
Now you try it. Summarize this paragraph in your notes.
Writing a Complete Summary:

Though the goal in summary writing is to be concise
and eliminate unnecessary supporting details, it is also
important not to misrepresent a work by leaving out
important sections of an author's text. If an author
spends a substantial amount of time and space on a
topic, a summary should include at least a brief
explanation of why that section is there. A complete
summary is one that does not skip over key points.
Practice once more. Summarize
this paragraph in your notes.
Writing an Objective Summary:

It is important in summary writing to resist the
temptation to insert evaluative comments,
personal examples, and opinions. Even seemingly
innocent adjectives used to describe an author's
work, such as "thoughtful work" or "poignant
insight" are inappropriate in a summary. A
summary should be an objective and open-
minded paraphrase of an author's work.
Final practice: it should be easy by now.
Now,
after you
graduate
from
high
school, it
will be
time to
see the
world.
Summary:

-Now, you are ready to write your notes summary.
-First sentence should be the answer to the Essential
Question
-Second- last sentence should touch on each of the
main ideas (left side)