Question

What are the benefits of summarizing a text? A. Summarizing provides a lengthy, detailed description of the text. B. Summarizing allows you to express your own opinions. C. Summarizing can improve your comprehension. D. Summarizing takes the focus off of central ideas.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Summarizing can improve your comprehension

Explanation:

The answer is "C. Summarizing can improve your comprehension" because it allows you to process the most important information of the text and write it in your own words.

The answer cannot be "A. Summarizing provides a lengthy detailed description of the text" since summaries are supposed to be shorter than the piece and only explain the important details

The answer cannot be "B. Summarizing allows you to express your own opinions" since a summary is supposed to include the information you are given in the text  

The answer cannot be "D. Summarizing takes the focus off of central ideas" because a summary is supposed to contain the central ideas and main details of a text

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Answer 2

Answer:

C.

Explanation:  Summarizing correctly includes only the central ideas of what the author is speaking.  It allows the reader to put what was read into their own words so that it helps make the central ideas make more sense.