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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

How do I summarize text?

How do I summarize text? Every time I ask this question to people they just give me some circular definition -- something along the lines of "just write what's important." But how would one know what's important?

For a math problem, it can be broken down into simpler steps.

Is there a way to find out what's important in a text document step by step?
  

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Hi, Consider this text. Yesterday I got up at 9 am, and had a shower. I walked to school with my friend, Tom, who lives next door to me.

— Clive

  • Hi, Consider this text.
  • Yesterday I got up at 9 am, and had a shower.
  • I walked to school with my friend, Tom, who lives next door to me.
  • At school, i had history and French.
  • For lunch, I ate a hamburger.
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Hi,
Consider this text.

Yesterday I got up at 9 am, and had a shower. I walked to school with my friend, Tom, who lives next door to me. At school, i had history and French. For lunch, I ate a hamburger. Then I saw a murder. After school, I came home and did my homework
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Certainly the most unusual event was that you saw a murder -- but this is not the same thing is importance.

What do I think the most important thing? I don't know. No one event seems more important than any other. Is walking to school more important than eating a hamburger? Is having a shower more important than watching TV?

Everything you did in that day seems to have equa
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Then you summarize by saying "Today, one exceptional thing happened in an otherwise routine day: I saw a murder."
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