Summarizing Why we use it and how to do it.

Summarizing Why? ◦ To help you understand what you are reading. ◦ To know what information should be included in your research.

Summarizing How? ◦ Identify the main idea in the information. ◦ Identify key details of the main idea. ◦ Re-write that information in your own words.

Summarizing Questions to ask yourself: ◦ Who/What is this about? ◦ What about them/it? ◦ When? ◦ Where? ◦ Why did it happen? ◦ How did it happen? ◦ Note: Not all questions will apply

Summarizing Turn to your partner... ◦ Each partner should give one reason why summarizing is important.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Who/What? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ What about it? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ When? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. ◦ Hhmm... It doesn’t say...

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Where? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. ◦ Hhmm... It doesn’t say...

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Why? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years. ◦ Hhmm... It doesn’t say...

Summarizing Practice: ◦ How? ◦ By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Re-Write in my own words: ◦ Scientists say the earth is about 4 1/2 billion years old.

Summarizing Practice: Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Who/What? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ What about them? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ What about them? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ When? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ When? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Where? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside. ◦ It doesn’t say

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Why? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ Why? ◦ Until about a decade ago, doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside.

Summarizing Practice: ◦ How? ◦ Until about a decade ago, that doctors knew so little about the sense of smell, that patients who complained that they could no longer smell things - a condition known as anosmia - were brushed aside. ◦ It doesn’t say