Ripa Eka Nurwanda (Summarizing)

 

Summarizing.

   Summarizing is the process of drawing conclusions or summaries of a text by simply quoting the important points. Summarizing (summary) must be short, complete, and objective by reading the parts carefully in order to produce a good summary.

Purpose Summarizing.

    The purpose of summarizing is to help students learn the technique of extracting the most important ideas from a text. They also learn to ignore irrelevant information present in the text, and students with these skills are able to integrate central ideas in a meaningful way from any theory or conceptual writing.

Characteristic of a Summarizing

The following are some summary characteristics, consisting of:

1. Reveal an essay or reading text in a solid form. In summarizing we take the essence    or main ideas of a reading so that it becomes a more compact form.

2. Reproducing what the author expressed in his writings. We take the essence which is      then rewritten in our own language what is expressed by the author.

3. Maintain the order of the main ideas so that a summary of the original text is built. In   summarizing we must continue to follow the main ideas so that the summary we        make still represents the original reading text.

4. The summary, point of view, and content follow the original manuscript. Even if we    rewrite it, we must not get out of the composition of the original manuscript.

5. Write short sentences that represent the author's writing. In principle, summarizing   means making writing shorter. Therefore, the sentences in the summary are short and    concise but do not remove the aesthetic elements of the original manuscript. 

Steps for make a  good summarizing

Some of the guidelines used to make a good and correct summary include:

1. Read the Original Script

The first step that must be taken is that a summary writer must read the original manuscript once or twice, it can even be repeated several times until the overall general impression of the contents of the manuscript is known. 

2. Noting the Main Idea

If the writer already knows the general impression, the original intention and the author's point of view, then now he must deepen and confirm all of these things. 

3. Reproduction

By using the general impression in the first step above and the notes obtained from the second step above, a writer is ready to start making the intended summary.

Examples of Summarizing

Original Text :

“..There are two ways to become wealthy,to creat wealthy pr to take wealth away from other .the former adds to society .The letter typically substracts  frrom it,from in the process of taking it away wealth get destroyed . A monopholist who overcharges for his productcs takes away money from those whom he is over charging and at the same time destroys value .to get his monopoly price ,he has to restrict  production “.Stiglitz ,J.E .(2013) The price of inequality . London : Penguin 

Summary Text :

Stiglitz (2013) suggest that  creating  wealth adds value to society ,but that taking away the wealth of other destracts from it .He uses the example of a monopolist who overcharges for his product resulting in loss of wealth for the customer ,but also loss of value as the monopolist  has to retrict production in order to charge the higher price.