Summarizing
and reporting
What does it consist in?
It helps focus on the key words and essential ideas, summarizing them into a shorter text with only main points.
How it is used?
To properly use this reading strategy you must locate the main ideas and the points that support the main ideas, then select the unnecessary information and get rid of it
Examples
An example of summarizing is writing a three or four-sentence description that touches upon the main points of a long book
Writters employ a large
inventory of reporting
with many shades of
meanings
Verbs indicating neutrality
Examples
argues, believes, explains...
Verbs indicating agreement
Examles
acknowledges, discovers, is aware that....