ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In student-friendly terms, summarizing is telling the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way.

Detailed explanation-2: -A summary must be comprehensive: You should isolate all the important points in the original passage and note them down in a list. Review all the ideas on your list, and include in your summary all the ones that are indispensable to the author’s development of her/his thesis or main idea.

Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of summarizing is to briefly present the key points of a theory or work in order to provide context for your argument/thesis. Read the work first to understand the author’s intent. This is a crucial step because an incomplete reading could lead to an inaccurate summary.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summarizing, or writing a summary, means giving a concise overview of a text’s main points in your own words. A summary is always much shorter than the original text.

Detailed explanation-5: -The act of summarizing is much like stating the plot of a play. For instance, if you were asked to summarize the story of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet, ’ you might say: It’s the story of a young prince of Denmark who discovers that his uncle and his mother have killed his father, the former king.