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Summarizing A Scholarly Journal Article

originally published by:Writing Centre of University of the Fraser Valley (2009)

Total page of Article : 3

Summarized by :Bakhreza A Talip (2014)

Employee of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Tg. Malim,Perak, MalaysiaPhD candidate of Multimedia University , Cyberjaya Campus, Selangor, Malaysia

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Introduction | Purpose of this POWER POINT presentation

To practice summarizing To demonstrate results of my own style in active and interactive reading . To coach myself to stay focus and being productive. To embrace advantages the rules of one activity at a time. To supply myself with guidance throughout the research process. To cultivate my own personal critical thinking through the process of summarizing. To appreciate my ability to read, think and write since kindergarten. To harness my own skills as a teacher as well as a a student through POWER POINT

and shared media technology . As a treatment for myself from procrastination. Maybe to inspire YOU , who choose to read this presentation. Above all this presentation made for academic purpose as summarizing is a crucial

skills need to master as a researcher.

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TERMINOLOGY | KEYWORDS | derived from the original text

Words Meaning

Gist(s) • The main or essential part of the article.• Its main line or line of reasoning.• The main ideas of the article

Main ideas Part of article which is general and abstract

Writing Contains main point , points and purpose.

Main point Line in the article needs to be develop and supports by example.

Child documentChild article

• Not exactly the same as its original but resemble the original • A new text which is fully formed and stand on its own.

Example Detailed description to interpret or analyze the main idea.

Nuggets of Information • A shorthand form derived from the original text.• Results from translation activity by rephrasing the complex ideas and concept in the

original document.• Notes emerged from the process of note taking.

Abstract • The concise summary of the original article than the child article.

Headings • Indicate main sections or topic shifts in the article• Reflects the writer’s organization or structure in the article.

Title of article Indicate the writer’s topic and approach to that topic

Note Taking A process to achieve a goal to produce nuggets of information.

Scholarly expression • Indicate name of people and the written document along with a date of publication • Rephrasing from the original

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Definition | A Summary

A Summary is a coherent document that both make sense on its own and accurately reflects its

original source.

A summary is a report in portable form express differently from the original

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Definition |

A summary express in a scholarly style

A written report indicating the name of people who wrote the original text ; title of the original text that has been summarized; the date of the original text published; the

description of main finding of the conclusion that derived from the original text; the connection to the original text

throughout the summary report.

A summary that include other details includes the name of people and the document, the date of publication and has been rephrase reflecting the original source.

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1. To report in a brief and yet accurate manner the main gists of the article.2. To report the main ideas and findings of others in a form of shorthand

information.

1. To produce a coherent text that bears an accurate relationship to its original.2. Presenting a text in a much briefer form from the original

Goal of Summaryexcerpt from the original

Objective of Summaryexcerpt from the original

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• To make note of main ideas of other writers• To make note of the more detailed description of example or cases.• To notice the distinction between abstract and detailed information.• To capture the connection between important ideas.• To make note of important ideas in shorthand form.

Goal of Note taking process in summarizingexcerpt from the original

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Tips | Do & Don’tWriting the first draft of the summary

Capture the connection between ideas or concepts.

Include one or two brief examples that illustrate main point or points from the original.

Make a summary reader strongly connected to the original article.

Control the amount of detail which to be included into the written summary avoiding the bog down report.

Make a long and complicated document accessible for use.

Retain some of the key terminology from the original.

Summarize the article in the same linear pattern of the original.

Expect to retain key idea in every paragraph of the original article.

Capture all the detailed description. Offer an evaluation or opinion of

the original article. Include direct quotes from the

original article. Report all of the technical

terminology of the original. Capture all of the abstract ideas or

concepts and the supporting material.

Do Don’texcerpt from the original

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Activity in Summarizing• Acts of sorting the general

and abstract concepts

from detailed example or

cases.• Acts of connecting important ideas.

• Acts of translation by rephrasing complex ideas

into more concise portable

form.

excerpt from the original

SortingConnectingRephrasing

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A shorter version of the original document.

A coherent document that reflects the original source

A new text not exactly the same as its original but bearing the features of original document.

A child of the original document which fully formed and stands on its own

Indicate to reader writer’s main point or points or purpose of writing.

Point out how the writer develop and support main point in the original article.

Dependent to the original article

Resemble the original source.

Give access to ideas of other writers.

Checklist |

Features of a summary

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Process of Summarizing

Flip through the entire

article

Read the abstract

Read the article

Read the article again

Look for connections

Read the draft of the summary

to someone who has not

read the original article

Express the summary in a scholarly

article

Focus on headings

Focus on title Get a sense of

information structure in the article.

Focus on concise

summary of the original

article

Actively Note Taking Highlight

different kind of information

Capture main idea of the articleGet sense of the writer’s topicMake connections between the parts of the article

Connects between nuggets of informationWrite first draft of the summary

Ask either the article making

any sense or not

Keeping in touch with the source

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FLIPREAD

FOCUS

TAKE NOTE

COLLECT NUGGETS

CONNECTNUGGETS

WRITE REPORT

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Completed within 6 hoursFrom Flip & Read to First Draft of Summary ReportIn POWER POINT