Wednesday, September 17, 2008

"What is a Summary?"

Summary- a summary is when you put a long writing and make it short in your own words. It also contain all the important facts but you have to compress them into a short spaces.
  • Summary can help you Strengthen your writing skill and help you find the main idea or key point in the story.
  • In order to do a summary you first have to read the story slowly and carefully and once you are done, highlight the important things within the story and then you can start to write a summary about it.
  • Highlight or underline and take note on it when you reaading a story, so later on you can go back and paraphrase the important facts and put it in your summary.

1 comment:

Suzanne Shaffer said...

Remember to finish this to include characteristics of a summary and the steps to write one....

One really important part of summary writing is to keep it short and sweet. The summary should be just enough to cover the main points and not include too many details....