English for Academic and

Professional Purposes
First Quarter, First Semester
The course English for Academic and
Professional Purposes aims to teach the
students to communicate effectively in diverse
academic and professional situations.
MELCs:
“Uses various techniques in summarizing
a variety of academic texts
(CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-Iac-4

Module 2 -Week 3
Learning Objectives:
 Identify the basic rules in summarizing;
 Apply the various techniques in summarizing
academic texts;
 State the importance of summarizing academic
texts; and
 Summarize academic texts using the appropriate
summarizing technique
Module 2 -Week 3
QUARTER 1– MODULE 3:
Summarizing Academic Text

QUARTER 1-Module 3
Summarizing
is a short restatement of the main
idea of the text. The output is called
a Summary.

Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing
Summaries are significantly shorter
than the original and take a broad
overview of the source material.

Basics of Summarizing
 Summarizing
is to condense a text to its main points
and to do so in your own words.

Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing
You should extract only those elements
that you think are most important—the
main idea (or thesis) and its essential
supporting points.

Basics of Summarizing
 WHEN TO SUMMARIZE

There are many instances in which you

Basics of Summarizing
WHEN TO SUMMARIZE
You may be assigned to write a one- or
two-pages summary of an article or
reading, or you may be asked to include
a summary of a text as part of a response
paper or critique
Basics of Summarizing
WHEN TO SUMMARIZE
Also, you may write summaries of
articles as part of the notetaking and
planning process for a research paper,

Basics of Summarizing
WHEN TO SUMMARIZE
You may want to include these
summaries, or at least parts of them, in
your paper.

Basics of Summarizing
A summary can be relatively brief, a
short paragraph or even a single
sentence or quite lengthy several
paragraphs or even an entire paper.

Basics of Summarizing
USES OF SUMMARIZING
• Reviewing a long text, speech, or
video
• Writing an abstract
• Preparing notes for a study guide
• Creating an annotated bibliography
Basics of Summarizing
USES OF SUMMARIZING
• Answering an essay question ·
• Writing a research paper
• Recording the results of an experiment
• Describing the plot of a fictional text or
film
Basics of Summarizing
QUALITIES OF A SUMMARY
A good summary should be
comprehensive, concise, coherent, and
independent. These qualities are
explained below:

Basics of Summarizing
QUALITIES OF A SUMMARY
 A summary must be comprehensive
 A summary must be concise:
 A summary must be coherent:
 A summary must be independent:

Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• Highlight or underline the thesis, topic
sentences, and key supporting details
as you read.
• Construct an outline or concept map to
help you identify the main ideas
Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• Start by writing the main idea.
• Review the major supporting ideas
• Paraphrase information by putting it
in your own words.

Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• Be brief and succinct so that your
summary is accurate, but significantly
shorter than the original text by
covering only the most important ideas
in fewer words.
Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• Consider your purpose and audience
• Present ideas in the same order that
the author does.

Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• If the author has a point of view,
explain what it is in your summary
leave your opinion out of the
summary unless you are required to
include it.
Basics of Summarizing
TIPS FOR SUMMARIZING
• Provide a citation if the summary is included
in a formal writing assignment or publication.

Basics of Summarizing
Basics of Summarizing
Basics of Summarizing
Proper summary Plagiarized summary

Basics of Summarizing
 Techniques and Strategies in
Summarizing Academic Text

Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Shorter Texts (ten
pages or fewer)
• Write a one-sentence summary of
each paragraph.
• Formulate a single sentence that
summarizes the whole text.
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Shorter Texts (ten
pages or fewer)
• Write a paragraph (or more): begin
with the overall summary sentence
and follow it with the paragraph
summary sentences
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Shorter Texts (ten pages
or fewer)
• Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to
make it clear and concise, to eliminate
repetition and
• relatively minor points, and to provide
transitions.
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Shorter Texts (ten pages
or fewer)
• The final version should be a
complete, unified, and coherent.

Basics of Summarizing
 Summarizing Longer Texts (more than
ten pages)
• Outline the text. Break it down into its
major sections—groups of paragraphs
focused on a
• common topic—and list the main
supporting points for each section
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Longer Texts (more than
ten pages)
• Formulate a single sentence to
summarize the whole text, looking at
the author's thesis or topic sentences as
a guide.
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Longer Texts (more than
ten pages)
• Write a paragraph (or more): begin with
the overall summary sentence and
Rewrite and rearrange your
paragraph(s) as needed to make your
writing clear and concise
Basics of Summarizing
Summarizing Longer Texts (more than
ten pages)

• The final version should be a

Basics of Summarizing
STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Magnet Summaries
-help writers expand on key terms or
concepts from a reading.

Basics of Summarizing
 These “magnet” words help students
organize information that becomes the
basis for student created summaries
(Buehl, 2001).

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Journalists’ Questions
the 5 Ws and an H, these simple
questions help writers identify important
information about a topic.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Journalists’ Questions
Only after the questions have been
answered, can writers organize their
news stories— or their summaries.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
GIST Summaries (Generating
Interaction between Schemata and Text)
-require writers to pare down information
into a 20-word summary. The process
helps writer better comprehend content
material.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Somebody Wanted But So
This strategy goes by many names,
depending upon the genre or content
being studied.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Somebody Wanted But So
the strategy helps students understand
the various plot elements of conflict
and resolution.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
Somebody Wanted But So
The strategy helps writers generalize,
recognize cause and effect
relationships, and find main ideas.

STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
STRATEGIES IN SUMMARIZING
FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
• Idea Heading Format
• Author Heading Format
• Date Heading Format

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Idea Heading Format
In this format, the summarized idea
comes before the citation

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
 Idea Heading Format
Example: Benchmarking is a useful
strategy that has the potential to help
public officials improve the performance
of local services (Folz,2004;
Ammons,2001).
FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Idea Heading Format
Once the practice of a city is
benchmarked, it can be a guidepost and
the basis for the other counterparts to
improve its own.

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Author Heading Format
the summarized idea comes after the
citation. The author’s name is
connected by an appropriate reporting
verb.

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Author Heading Format

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Date Heading Format
the summarized idea comes after
the date when the material was
published.

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Date Heading Format

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
Date Heading Format

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
 THESIS STATEMENT OF
AN
ACADEMIC TEXT

FORMATS in SUMMARIZING
 WHAT IS A THESIS
STATEMENT?

Thesis Statement
 A thesis statement is the central
idea of a multiple-paragraph
composition. It is a one sentence
summary that guides, controls, and
unifies ideas when writing a paper.

Thesis Statement
In simple terms, all the other ideas
present in an essay revolve around
a thesis statement.
 Remember that the thesis statement,
unlike usual topic or title, uses a
complete sentence.
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement
In the academic text, thesis
statements are found in the abstract
or executive summary or found in
the last part of the introduction.

Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement
 3 Components of a Thesis statement

Topic- general subject of a text or an essay

Thesis Statement
Example: people should strictly follow
health protocols
3. Sub-topic (optional)
Example-to prevent the spread of corona
virus
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement:
People should strictly follow the health
protocols in order to prevent the spread of
corona virus.

Thesis Statement
Where is the opinion words?
Thesis Statement:
Playing online games is destroying the
unity of the modern family.

Thesis Statement
 Misconceptions of a thesis statement.
 Using general statements
Example- students like online games (too
general)
My best friends like online games

Thesis Statement
 Misconceptions of a thesis statement.
 Stating a facts
Example: The Philippines is atropical
country(fact)

Thesis Statement
 Misconceptions of a thesis statement.
 Stating a facts
The Philippines is a good place for travel
vloggers because of its beautiful beaches.
(better example)

Thesis Statement
 Misconceptions of a thesis statement.
 Making announcement
I’m going to prove...
I want to share my thoughts about
coronavirus

Thesis Statement
 Misconceptions of a thesis statement.
 Making announcement
Since the vaccine of coronavirus is in its
trial period, the government should
seriously spend much on testing kit and
hire more workers for contact tracing.
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement
 WHAT IS A TOPIC
SENTENCE?

Thesis Statement
Topic sentence guides, controls, and
unifies ideas in a paragraph. It
develops one argument
of the thesis statement

Topic sentence
A topic sentence can either be explicitly
or implicitly stated. An explicitly stated
topic sentence can be placed in four
different locations

Topic sentence
at the beginning, at the middle, at the
end of the paragraph, or the start nd end
of a paragraph.

Topic sentence
 An implied topic sentence, on the other
hand, is not directly seen in the
paragraph. It is up to the readers to
deduce what the topic sentence is.

Topic sentence
 The thesis statement and the topic
sentence are very much related to each
other. Basically, the topic sentence
develops the details in the thesis
statement; if the thesis statement contains
three details, then the paper will have
three topic sentences.
Topic sentence
Topic sentence
SUPPORTING DETAILS
a composition is incomplete without
the supporting details. these details
are pieces of
information necessary to better
understand the main idea. t
Topic sentence
SUPPORTING DETAILS
They can be facts, reasons, testimonies,
statistics, and experiments that support
the topic sentence. Supporting details are
divided into two
levels: major details and minor details.
Topic sentence
SUPPORTING DETAILS
Major details directly support the topic
sentence whereas
minor details directly support the major
details.

Topic sentence
Topic sentence
Topic sentence