Summarizing

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Summarizing Note Taking

• Melissa Brewer
• Mary Noppinger
• Kelly Willig
• Amanda Perdue
• Teisha Combs

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Research Question How effective is summarizing
and note taking in helping remember information
presented?
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Write down everything you see.
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Picture Questions

• Is the floor covered in carpet?
• What color is the dresser?
• What were the objects that are used to play
  sports?
• What was on the shelf above the dresser?
• Where were the shoes?

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Note Taking
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Theory on Note Taking

• Notes should be considered a work in progress
• Notes should be used as study guides for tests
• The more taken, the better

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Formats for Notes

• Informal outline
• Webbing
• Teacher-prepared notes

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Combination Notes

• 3 parts-
• Divide each page down the middle
• Right-side of page
• Left-side of page
• Horizontal line near bottom of page
• Strip across bottom of page

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Student Notes Combination Technique
Inflation Increases When the money supply is
greater than value of nations output of goods
and services (GS) OR When expenditures for food,
goods, investment, government spending, and net
exports are greater than the value of nations
output of GS Decreases When money supply is
smaller than value of nations output of
GS OR When expenditures are less than value of
nations output
1.10
Money Supply
gt
GS
1.00
1.00
Output of Goods Services
lt
Money
.90
Inflation results from the relationship between
the money supply and the value of a nations
output of goods and services.
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Summarizing
Summarizing is not just rewording information
from the text. It is a translation into a
synthesized form.
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Effective Summarization

• Students Must
• Delete some information
• Substitute some information
• Keep some information
• Analyze information at a fairly deep level

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Keys

• Awareness of information
• Prevent expectations from past experiences or
  readings
• Different expectations depend on type of article
  being read

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Amelia Earhart Questions

• How much did Amelia pay for the plane ride that
  changed her life?
• What did Amelia name her organization for women
  pilots?
• What was Amelias job before she became a pilot?
• What was Amelias record time for flying across
  the Atlantic?
• Who was Amelias navigator?

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Summary Frame
-a series of questions that teacher provides to
students which highlight critical material

• The Narrative Frame
• The Topic-Restriction Illustration Frame
• The Definition Frame
• The Argumentation Frame
• The Problem/Solution Frame
• The Conversation Frame

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Narrative Frame

• Characters
• Setting
• Initiating event
• Internal response
• Goal
• Consequence
• Resolution

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Topic-Restriction Illustration Frame

• Expository material
• Topic-general statement about the topic to be
  discussed
• Restriction-limits the information in some way
• Illustrations-exemplifies the topic or restriction

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Definition Frame

• Describe a particular concept and identify
  subordinate concepts
• Term-the subject to be defined
• Gross characters-those characteristics that
  separate the term from other elements in the set
• Minute differences-those different classes of
  objects that fall directly beneath the term

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Argumentation Frame

• Information designed to support a claim
• Evidence-information designed to support a claim
• Claim-assertion that something is true
• Support-example of or explanations for the claim
• Qualifier-a restriction on the claim or evidence
  for the claim

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Problem/Solution Frame

• Introduces a problem and then identify one or
  more solutions to the problem.

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Conversation Frame

• A verbal interchange between two or more people
• Contains following components
• Greeting-some acknowledgment that the parties
  have not seen each other for a while
• Inquiry-a question about some general or specific
  topic
• Discussion-an elaboration or analysis of the
  topic
• Conclusion-the conversation ends in some way