FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read.

Detailed explanation-2: -Background. Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate important details that support them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Even if you only have one or two sources, writing a summary for each can help you organize your understanding before you write. For example, if an assignment asks you to compare and contrast one source with another, writing a summary of each source can distill the main ideas in each.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explain that a summary should be as brief or short as possible; therefore, they do not want to get too specific or have too many details in their summary. Remind students that in a summary they should use their own words and they should also be objective, or not use their opinion, in a summary.