Apart from the guiding questions provided in the passage, below are some steps to make a good summary:
- Eliminate non-vital information.
- Join sentences with related ideas.
- Re-organize ideas to improve sentence fluency.
Taking these into consideration, here is an example summary from the passage taken from History and Geography 7, Unit 6.
Archaeologists discovered that people came to the North American continent long ago possibly by crossing fifty-six miles between Asia and Alaska. While the date and details of their trip remain unknown, as nomads, they migrated during the spring and summer in search of food for their herds and camped during the winter. Eventually, they settled from the east coast to the tip of South America. Artifacts found from this era were used for hunting animals to get food and clothing.
Swift was criticized for his satire because the novel itself is highly critical of the English government and English customs, the country's religious struggles, the monarchy's handling of those struggles, and so forth.
Answer:
Technology growth has contributed to too many world turning innovations, improved services, and improved luxuries because, at the very same time, our everyday lives have changed drastically. Various highly designed, internet-connected devices have revolutionized the manner in which people communicate. Technology allows companies to thrive with reduces pain effectively and successfully and cutting the cost of just doing dealings in business. Through having them linked to vendors, consumers and everyones sales staff, technologies enable company operations. Technological advancement prepared the path for wearable electronics such as the apple watch as well as the mobile phone. Computer systems are becoming bigger, more compact and more efficient than it has ever been. New technologies has always makes our job smoother, quicker, safer and more enjoyable in all those transformations.
- politics
- ethical issues such as death row
- answer a question in your opinion (ex: should vapes be banned)
