14.2.1 Study Skills: Summarising

• Steps of a summary: read, underline main ideas, notes, rough draft, fair copy
• A summary is shorter, in your own words, and keeps the writer’s main points
• Summarising a paragraph on outdoor games; peer review of length and accuracy

• identify the main ideas in texts
• write a summary of ideas from varied texts
• appreciate the importance of summarising information in a given context

“Why is it important to summarise information?”

“What factors should one consider when summarising an event?”

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1. Find the main ideas, then follow the steps
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   A summary keeps the writer’s main ideas in fewer words. First read, underline, and note — do not start copying.
2. Rough draft to fair copy
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   Join notes into a rough draft in your own words, then write a fair copy that is short, complete and honest.