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English For Academic and Professional Purposes: Quarter 1 - Module 3, Week 3 Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Outlining
English For Academic and Professional Purposes: Quarter 1 - Module 3, Week 3 Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Outlining
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Quarter 1 - Module 3, Week 3: Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Outlining
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Lesson 3
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Identifying Thesis Statement
and Outlining ………………………… 1
Reading Texts in Various Disciplines ………………………… 1
What’s New ………………………... 1
What is It: Summarizing ………………………… 1
What’s More: Summarizing Texts ………………………… 3
What is It: Paraphrasing ………………………... 4
What’s More: Paraphrasing Sentences ………………………… 6
What is It: Outlining ………………………... 7
What’s More: Practice with Outlining ………………………… 8
What I Have Learned: Synthesizing Learnings …………………… 10
What I Can Do: Paraphrasing and Summarizing an Article …….. 10
Summary ………………………… 13
Key to Answers ………………………… 14
References ………………………… 16
What This Module Is About
Welcome to this module especially made for you! This module is made easy and
interactive designed to meet your needs as a 21st century learner. What you need most
is to focus and take time so that you will be able to achieve what you need to do in this
module. It also aims to enhance your skills in reading academic texts. You will also be
introduced to the genre of academic text, and be trained to use efficient strategies in
reading texts to provide you with skills for you to be able to work independently.
Reading is a process that involves recognizing words, leading to the development
of comprehension. Reading is a process that negotiates the meaning between the text
and its reader.
In this module, you will acquire knowledge of appropriate reading strategies for a
better understanding of academic texts to be able to produce a detailed abstract of
information gathered from the various academic texts read. Concepts like the structure,
language used from various disciplines, ideas contained in various academic texts,
knowledge of the text structure to glean information that is needed, various techniques,
thesis statements, paraphrasing and outlining reading text in various disciplines are
discussed in the following lessons:
1. Structure of Academic Text
2. Language used in Academic Texts from Various Disciplines
3. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Identifying Thesis Statement, and Outlining reading
texts in various disciplines
4. Writing a Precis or Summary
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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.
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Lesson
Summarizing, Paraphrasing
3 and Outlining
First Semester, Q2 – Week 3
What’s New
Suppose you told your friend that you just watched a great film, and your friend
asks what the story is. What would you do? Would you tell the story as it is from the
opening scene to the end credits, or would you simply talk about the essential parts of the
movie? You’ll probably agree that the latter is the more practical choice, and you are
correct. More often than not, the gist or the most significant or important part is what is
given out to provide a background, not only in talking about movie plots but also in writing
academic and professional papers.
What is it
What is Summarizing?
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What is Summary?
1. Read the text you are about to summarize over and over again.
2. Identify the main idea of the text you are planning to summarize.
3. Put your feet into your readers’ shoes.
4. Ensure a smooth flow of ideas.
5. Limit your summary to a few sentences.
6. Do not forget to proofread your work.
Main Idea
A calorie, also known as kilocalorie, is a unit of energy. This unit represents the
energy required to heat a kilogram of water on degree Celsius. While people generally
link the term calorie with food, it is a unit of measurement that can be applied to any
substance possessing energy. For instance, there are 8200 calories in a liter (about one
quart) of gasoline.
Source: Cruz, Rosalina, Laurel, Ma. Milagros, and Lucero, Adelaida. English for Academic and Professional
Purposes Reader Learner’s Material. Quezon City. Department of Education. 2016
Calorie is a unit of
energy
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Sentence summary…
A calorie is a unit of energy that represents the energy required to heat a kilogram
of water on degree Celsius. This is also a unit of measurement where 1 liter of gasoline
is composed of 8200 calories.
You are now equipped on how to summarize. Here is what you should do next.
What’s More
Activity 1. Summarize in 5 sentences the following text below. Do the same as the
given example. Write your answer in your ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
1.
2. 3. 4.
Sentence summary…
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2. “The movement toward education by computer is developing fast. Massive Open
Online Courses, called MOOCs, are changing how people could receive study materials
from colleges or universities and take part in online classes. But such classes were not
designed for many thousands of students at one time, as MOOCs are.” (5 points)
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Activity 2. Write S if the statement describes good summarizing and N if not. Write
your answer in your EFAPP ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
What is It
What is Paraphrasing?
1. Repeatedly read the passage to be paraphrased until you have completely understood
what it says.
2. Do not look at the passage while you are writing your paraphrase.
3. After writing your paraphrase, read the original passage once again to check if you
were able to accurately capture its meaning. By doing this, you will avoid misquoting
your source.
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4. Check whether your paraphrase has errors in grammar or mechanics.
5. Always cite your source.
Example 1
Original: Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay and they can consume 75
pounds of food a day.
Example 2
Original: A group of US researchers has carried out trials on a new
vaccine.
Example 3
Original: An unhealthy lifestyle can be the cause of many diseases.
Example 4
Original: Usually, female kangaroos give birth to one joey at a time. Newborns
weigh as little as 0.03 ounces at birth. After birth, the joey crawls into
its mother’s pouch, where it will nurse and continue to grow and
develop. Red Kangaroo joeys do not leave the pouch for good until
they are more than eight months old.
What’s More
Activity 3. Paraphrase the following sentences. Write your answers in your ACTIVITY
NOTEBOOK.
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Activity 4. Compare paraphrasing and summarizing using a Venn diagram. Aim from
at least three similarities and three differences.
Paraphrasing
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
Summarizing
What Is It
What is Outlining?
The main idea or topic is the main topic of the outline. All main topics are indicated
by Roman Numeral. Subtopics are noted by letters and supporting details are indicated
by Arabic Numerals.
Example:
Benjamin Franklin – Scientist and Inventor
What’s More
Activity 5. Practice with Outlining. Read each paragraph. Then fill in the blanks in
the outlines that follow.
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often unconscious way. When a managerial leader believes that a group member will
succeed, the manager communicates this belief without realizing that he or she is doing
so. Conversely, when a leader expects a group member to fail, that person will not usually
disappoint the manager. The manager’s expectation of success or failure becomes a self-
fulfilling prophecy. Thus it pays for a manager to expect the best from employees.
(Adapted from Andrew J. DuBrin, Leadership 4/e © Cengage Learning)
2. Called the “Pygmalion effect” i.e. expect the best and you will get it.
3. ____________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________
2. We do not think enough about thinking, and much of our confusion is the result of
current illusions about it. Let us forget for the moment any impression we may have
derived from the philosophers, and see what seems to happen in ourselves. The first thing
that we notice is that our thought moves with such incredible rapidity that is almost
impossible to arrest any specimen of it long enough to have a look at it. When we are
offered a penny for our thoughts, we also find out that we have recently had so many
things in our mind that we can easily make a selection, which will not compromise us too
nakedly. On inspection, we shall find that even if we are not downright ashamed of a great
part of our spontaneous thinking it is far too intimate, personal, ignoble or trivial to permit
us to reveal more than small part of it. I believe this must be true to everyone. We do
know what goes on in other people’s heads. They tell us very little, and we tell them very
little. The spigot of speech, rarely fully opened, could never emit more than driblets of the
ever-renewed hogshead of thought-noch grösser wie’s Heidelberger Fass. We find it hard
to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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What I Have Learned
What I Can Do
Activity 6. Read the article below. Compare the amount of paraphrasing, and
summarizing that can be found in the article. Use the questions below as
your guide in your analysis.
A. What is the title of the article? What is the source of the article?
B. How many paraphrases does the article introduction contain? How many
summaries does the article introduction contain?
C. What can you say about the amount of paraphrases and summaries in the
article? Is there too much paraphrases and summaries? If there is too much
paraphrases and summaries, how do they affect the main idea of the text?
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D. Overall, what is your impression of the usage of paraphrases and summaries?
Do you find it effective?
“This is not just a public health crisis, it is a crisis that will touch every sector,” said
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, at a media briefing. “So every
sector and every individual must be involved in the fights.”
In some ways, declaring a pandemic is more art than science. “Pandemics mean
different things to different people,” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in February. “It really is borderline semantics, to be honest
with you.”
During multiple prior press briefings, WHO officials maintained that COVID-19 had
“pandemic potential,” but stopped short of declaring it one. The agency did, in January,
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call it a public health emergency of international concern, a slightly different label that
refers to an “extraordinary event” that “constitute[s] a public health risk to other States
through the international spread of disease.”
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is thought to have first jumped from
an animal host to humans in Wuhan, China. At least at first, most cases were seen within
China and among people who had traveled there, as well as those travelers’ close
contacts. While these cases were concerning, they did not suggest a pandemic, because
there was not significant spread outside of China.
But as the total number of infections rose, so too did the number of cases that
spread from person-to-person within communities around the world. Cases have now
been confirmed on every continent except Antarctica, and secondary disease hotspots
have emerged in places such as South Korea, Italy and Iran.
All of these factors helped inform the WHO’s pandemic declaration, which signals
to the world that continued spread is likely, and that countries should prepare for the
possibility of widespread community transmission. It may also inform travel policy, and
prompt cities and countries to flesh out plans for quarantines and possible disruptions to
public events, if the need arises. It can also kickstart the expedited development of
therapeutics and vaccines.
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Summary
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Activity 2
1. N 6. S
2. S 7. S
3. S 8. S
4. N 9. S
5. S 10. S
Sentence Summary…
Possible answer: Wrigley has developed premium to be given away. He has thought to
do this to his father’s factory where the manufactured soap was not popular for merchants
cannot get good profit. In the end, Wrigley’s father was convinced to give premium for sale
to grow. It was confirmed that using premium is an effective tool.
1. Answer may vary
Possible answer: According to a Voice of America article, a fast-growing MOOCs
movement allows thousands to take online classes at once, changing how we learn.
Activity 1 Answers may vary.
Lesson 3
Key of Answers
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Activity 4
1. attributed to the original source
2. Highlight a particularly striking phrase,
sentence, or passage by quoting the
original
Activity 3
1. Additional evidence is required to show the benefits of active learning.
2. A large hospital will soon be constructed in the former location.
3. The key presenter had taken ill, which resulted in the speech being cancelled by the event planners.
References
A. Book Sources
Barrot, Jessie and Sipacio, Philippe John. Communicate Today English for Academic &
Professional Purposes for Senior High School. Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc.,
2016.
Cruz, Rosalina, Laurel, Ma. Milagros, and Lucero, Adelaida. English for Academic and
Professional Purposes Reader Learner’s Material. Quezon City. Department of
Education. 2016
Cruz, Rosalina, Laurel, Ma. Milagros, and Lucero, Adelaida. English for Academic and
Professional Purposes Reader Teacher’s Guide. Quezon City. Department of
Education. 2016
Gabelo, Nerissa, and Geron, Cristina. Reading-Writing Connection for the 21st Century
Learners for Senior High School. Malabon City. Mutya Publishing House, Inc. 2016.
Valdez, P. English for the globalized classroom series. English for Academic &
Professional Purposes. The Phoenix Publishing House Inc. 2016
Oracion, G. M. & Dalona, I. F. English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Tagum
City. Diocesan Printing Press and Publishing, Inc. 2018
B. Online Sources
Google. “Academic and Non Academic Texts” Accessed June 28, 2020.
http://www.screencast.com/users/Uni_Rdg_Library/folders/Study%20Advice/me
dia/898c4360-f86d-4808-812a-758d4ef4ac02
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