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Reading: Information Extraction and Summarization

Reading: Information Extraction and Summarization. LELI English Academic Writing Center. Preview. Text Selection Relevance Checklists Reading Strategies Skimming Key- word Strategies Vocabulary Strategies Structure and Reading. Summarization Comprehensiveness Conciseness

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Reading: Information Extraction and Summarization

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  1. Reading: InformationExtraction and Summarization LELI English AcademicWriting Center

  2. Preview • Text Selection • Relevance • Checklists • Reading Strategies • Skimming • Key-wordStrategies • VocabularyStrategies • Structure and Reading • Summarization • Comprehensiveness • Conciseness • Coherence • Independence • Usingsummarization in academicwriting • Differenttypes of summarizing • Application

  3. SelectingTexts • Purpose of academicreading–Informationexctraction • Knowwhattype of informationyouwant • Findappropriatetexts • Discardirrelevanttexts • Searchforinformationspecifically - Checklists

  4. Exercise–ChoosingTexts • Topic: Pre-ColombianReligions and Latin American Catholicism • “Syncreticreligions: Anoverview” • “Saints and Gods: A comparison” • “The Colonial CatholicChurch” • “Mesoamerican Ritual Sacrifice” • “ReligiousRhetoric and Latin American Politics” • “CatholicSpain: A History”

  5. Reading Strategies • Skimming • Readquickly • Don’t use dictionaries • Identifykeywords • Key-Word Strategy/Scanning • Findkeywords • Define keywords • Connectkeywords • VocabularyStrategy • Don’timmediately use a dictionary • Contextclues • Mark unknownwords • StructureClues • Rememberacademicstructure • Use topic and concludingsentencestoidentifymainpoints

  6. Importance of Reading Strategies • Time management–Skimming • Text selection– Key words • Vocabularybuilding • UnderstandingStructure

  7. Exercise– Reading Strategies • Probablythemostdifficultproblemforpeople living aloneisdealingwithfeelings of loneliness. First, theyhavetounderstandthefeeling. Somepeopleconfusebeingalonewithfeelinglonely. Theyneedtorememberthatunhappilymarriedpeople can feelverylonelywithspouses, and anyone can sufferfromloneliness in a roomcrowdedwithfriends. Second, people living alonehavetofightanytencendiestogetdepressed. Depression can lead tomuchunhappiness, includingconpulsivebehaviorlikeovereatingorspendingtoomuchmoney. Depression can also drive peopletofillthefeeling of emptinessbygettingintorelationshipsorjobsthatthey do nottrulywant. Third, people living aloneneedtogetinvolved in useful and pleasurableactivities, such as volunteeringtheirservicestohelpothers.

  8. Summarizing • Characteristics of goodsummaries: • Comprehensive–Allimportantinformationcovered • Concise– Short, tothepoint, non-repetitive • Coherent–Notjust a list of statements, but a connectedsentenceorparagraph • Independent–Notanattemptto preserve theauthor’s “voice,” buttorestatetheinformation in yourownway

  9. Summarizing • Types of summaries • Paragraph Sentence • Long text  Paragraph • Section  Sentence • Paragraph  Phrase

  10. WhyisSummarizingUseful? • Paraphrasing • Literaturereviews • Writingconcisely

  11. Exercise–Summarizing • Probablythemostdifficultproblemforpeople living aloneisdealingwithfeelings of loneliness. First, theyhavetounderstandthefeeling. Somepeopleconfusebeingalonewithfeelinglonely. Theyneedtorememberthatunhappilymarriedpeople can feelverylonelywithspouses, and anyone can sufferfromloneliness in a roomcrowdedwithfriends. Second, people living alonehavetofightanytencendiestogetdepressed. Depression can lead tomuchunhappiness, includingconpulsivebehaviorlikeovereatingorspendingtoomuchmoney. Depression can also drive peopletofillthefeeling of emptinessbygettingintorelationshipsorjobsthatthey do nottrulywant. Third, people living aloneneedtogetinvolved in useful and pleasurableactivities, such as volunteeringtheirservicestohelpothers.

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