Creating summaries is one way to help you remember what you have read. According to Renate Caine in 12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action: The Fieldbook for Making Connections, Teaching, and the Human Brain, summarizing "reflects content and feeling after a longer sequence during a conversation. The listener can summarize at the end of aconversation or at intervals to clarify a speakers thoughts" (61). Caine emphasizes that summarizing helps students "avoid assuming that you know what is being said and to hear what [speakers] actually say" (61).

 

Summarizing is a word-based study skill that begins with listening and ends with putting ideas into words!

 

Before we explore some ways to write summaries, let's go through a brief example to help you understand the usefulness of summaries.

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