This document provides tips for reading and summarizing a text. It recommends underlining and highlighting key words, reading critically by asking questions about the author and intended audience, making annotations in the margins, and summarizing the text in your own words. The purpose of summarizing is to present the main ideas more briefly, understand the essence, avoid plagiarism, and improve comprehension.
3. Read critically by asking the questions of the
text
Who wrote it? Who is the intended
audience?
4. Make annotations in the margin
Title
Theme
Example
5. Summarise what you have read in your own
word
The purpose of summarising is:
To present a writers ideas in a
briefer form
To capture the essence of a longer
piece of writing
To avoid plagiarism
To understand the text better in
our own way.