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Summarizing Strategies

Summarizing Strategies. Graphic overview, compression, sentence summary & post-it clusters. Graphic overview. Boxes around important ideas; Arrows to show the relationship between ideas; Label relationships outside of boxes. Graphic overview: what it looks like.

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Summarizing Strategies

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  1. Summarizing Strategies Graphic overview, compression, sentence summary & post-it clusters

  2. Graphic overview • Boxes around important ideas; • Arrows to show the relationship between ideas; • Label relationships outside of boxes.

  3. Graphic overview: what it looks like Development of technology (cause) NEGATIVES POSITIVES Human dependence More jobs (effect) (effect) Eliminates human Betters economy relationships Gains outweigh benefits: (conclusion) WORTHWHILE ADVANCEMENT

  4. Compression • Cross out unnecessary info; • Put parentheses around what you can condense; • Write simplified words and phrases over parentheses.

  5. Compression: what it looks like Urban schools (Educational institutions in large cities) such as New York and Bostonhave been criticized for promoting students (passing students from grade to grade) for non-academic reasons (regular attendance and good citizenship and not academics). Original text is in white.

  6. Sentence summary • Write a 1-sentence summary of each segment of the article, chapter, etc.; • Divide the paper into segments based on similar topics if it is not already divided for you; • Title each segment.

  7. Sentence summary: what it looks like Men are discovering Title IX Men are becoming more aware of Title IX, and some are beginning to take an active role in promoting gender equity in sports. Results of Title IX for men Sports are less male-dominated and more inclusive as a result of Title IX.

  8. Post-it Clusters • Highlight main article ideas; • Transfer ideas in 3-5 words to post-it notes, using 1 post-it per idea; • Cluster the post-it notes according to association; • Title each cluster of post-it notes.

  9. Post-it clusters: what it looks like AIMS test rewritten last year Small sample of Why AIMS is invalid schools “Bar” lowered for seniors

  10. Summarizing cont. Each one of these strategies should yield a written summary—and all summaries must be cited correctly in MLA, APA or other applicable format!

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