CONCLUDING REMARKS.

     There are many other books available in the bookstores that discuss summarizing, note-taking, and paraphrasing.  Please refer to them for more details.  The important thing to remember when summarizing is to reduce the original language into your own words.  The summary must carry the meaning of the original text, but have its language created out of your own language.  To summarize well, you need to be able to “play with” the language, to re-mold it, to alter it, to create / destroy / re-create it again and again.  You should do this in English, not your mother-tongue.  Perfection is rarely achieved in summarizing, but it is a goal worth pursuing.  Summarizing is especially useful when you are reading a big and long textbook, and have to take notes.  I hope you find summarizing helpful in the years ahead!