Summarizing

In order to successfully answer your TEAS examination questions in reading and also to successfully comprehend the reading material that you will be studying in your future studies in nursing school, you will have to be able to summarize complex reading materials and texts.

When Summarizing:

One thing that might be difficult, especially when summarizing controversial material, is to leave your opinion out. Why? Because summaries contain only the source's ideas, and nothing more. Stating your opinion would not be summarizing that source. When using a summary in an essay or research paper, include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.

If you should use opinions, what should you use? You should use your own words when writing summaries as much as possible. You can't avoid using names of people and places of course, but it's important to phrase the main points of the source in your own way. You might also want to include an occasional brief quote. Summaries aren't outlines. They're complete paragraphs with fully formed sentences.

In order to summarize a complex text, you must be able to:

• Identify and comprehend the topic or main idea of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the purpose of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the key ideas, or supporting ideas, of the reading material

• Paraphrase a summary of the reading material

The best way to summarize a passage is by asking yourself the following questions: 

• What is this story, essay, book chapter, etc. trying to tell me or teach me?
  The topic of the reading passage is an excellent clue in terms of beginning to answer this question about a complex reading passage.

• What is the author of the reading material saying?
  Before answering this question, you must know the topic of the reading passage.

• What are the supporting ideas in the reading passage and how do these key or supporting ideas support the thesis or main idea of the reading passage?
  In this reflective questioning, you should give some examples of these key ideas in a highly brief and condensed manner. A summary of a reading passage is not a restatement of the entire reading material, but instead, it is a brief and concise synopsis of it.

In order to successfully answer your TEAS examination questions in reading and also to successfully comprehend the reading material that you will be studying in your future studies in nursing school, you will have to be able to summarize complex reading materials and texts.

When Summarizing:

One thing that might be difficult, especially when summarizing controversial material, is to leave your opinion out. Why? Because summaries contain only the source's ideas, and nothing more. Stating your opinion would not be summarizing that source. When using a summary in an essay or research paper, include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.

If you should use opinions, what should you use? You should use your own words when writing summaries as much as possible. You can't avoid using names of people and places of course, but it's important to phrase the main points of the source in your own way. You might also want to include an occasional brief quote. Summaries aren't outlines. They're complete paragraphs with fully formed sentences.

In order to summarize a complex text, you must be able to:

• Identify and comprehend the topic or main idea of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the purpose of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the key ideas, or supporting ideas, of the reading material

• Paraphrase a summary of the reading material

The best way to summarize a passage is by asking yourself the following questions: 

• What is this story, essay, book chapter, etc. trying to tell me or teach me?
  The topic of the reading passage is an excellent clue in terms of beginning to answer this question about a complex reading passage.

• What is the author of the reading material saying?
  Before answering this question, you must know the topic of the reading passage.

• What are the supporting ideas in the reading passage and how do these key or supporting ideas support the thesis or main idea of the reading passage?
  In this reflective questioning, you should give some examples of these key ideas in a highly brief and condensed manner. A summary of a reading passage is not a restatement of the entire reading material, but instead, it is a brief and concise synopsis of it.

In order to successfully answer your TEAS examination questions in reading and also to successfully comprehend the reading material that you will be studying in your future studies in nursing school, you will have to be able to summarize complex reading materials and texts.

When Summarizing:

One thing that might be difficult, especially when summarizing controversial material, is to leave your opinion out. Why? Because summaries contain only the source's ideas, and nothing more. Stating your opinion would not be summarizing that source. When using a summary in an essay or research paper, include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.

If you should use opinions, what should you use? You should use your own words when writing summaries as much as possible. You can't avoid using names of people and places of course, but it's important to phrase the main points of the source in your own way. You might also want to include an occasional brief quote. Summaries aren't outlines. They're complete paragraphs with fully formed sentences.

In order to summarize a complex text, you must be able to:

• Identify and comprehend the topic or main idea of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the purpose of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the key ideas, or supporting ideas, of the reading material

• Paraphrase a summary of the reading material

The best way to summarize a passage is by asking yourself the following questions: 

• What is this story, essay, book chapter, etc. trying to tell me or teach me?
  The topic of the reading passage is an excellent clue in terms of beginning to answer this question about a complex reading passage.

• What is the author of the reading material saying?
  Before answering this question, you must know the topic of the reading passage.

• What are the supporting ideas in the reading passage and how do these key or supporting ideas support the thesis or main idea of the reading passage?
  In this reflective questioning, you should give some examples of these key ideas in a highly brief and condensed manner. A summary of a reading passage is not a restatement of the entire reading material, but instead, it is a brief and concise synopsis of it.

In order to successfully answer your TEAS examination questions in reading and also to successfully comprehend the reading material that you will be studying in your future studies in nursing school, you will have to be able to summarize complex reading materials and texts.

When Summarizing:

One thing that might be difficult, especially when summarizing controversial material, is to leave your opinion out. Why? Because summaries contain only the source's ideas, and nothing more. Stating your opinion would not be summarizing that source. When using a summary in an essay or research paper, include an in-text citation to give credit to the original source.

If you should use opinions, what should you use? You should use your own words when writing summaries as much as possible. You can't avoid using names of people and places of course, but it's important to phrase the main points of the source in your own way. You might also want to include an occasional brief quote. Summaries aren't outlines. They're complete paragraphs with fully formed sentences.

In order to summarize a complex text, you must be able to:

• Identify and comprehend the topic or main idea of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the purpose of the reading material

• Identify and comprehend the key ideas, or supporting ideas, of the reading material

• Paraphrase a summary of the reading material

The best way to summarize a passage is by asking yourself the following questions: 

• What is this story, essay, book chapter, etc. trying to tell me or teach me?
  The topic of the reading passage is an excellent clue in terms of beginning to answer this question about a complex reading passage.

• What is the author of the reading material saying?
  Before answering this question, you must know the topic of the reading passage.

• What are the supporting ideas in the reading passage and how do these key or supporting ideas support the thesis or main idea of the reading passage?
  In this reflective questioning, you should give some examples of these key ideas in a highly brief and condensed manner. A summary of a reading passage is not a restatement of the entire reading material, but instead, it is a brief and concise synopsis of it.