Description Of Automatic Text Summarization

Summarizing is one of the most efficient ways to formulate. Summarizing gives the reader a better understanding of the text. To

Responses (interact with the text through analysis, predictions, evaluation, and connections, but don’t just summarize)

5.RN.3.1 Apply knowledge of text features in multiple print and digital sources to locate information, gain meaning from a text, or solve a problem.

Skim the text to find the gist and to identify where the key term is

Today 's lesson objective is: Students will be able to determine how an author structures a text to make it more manageable and efficient to read.

CCSS R.1 4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

where all pertinent information is extracted and created into a rough outline. I then analyze the

29) At a very high level, the text mining process consists of each of the following tasks except:

I could identify the author’s main claim and key arguments quickly. Furthermore, by breaking down the key arguments into components, I could understand them better. These made it easier for me to describe and express the author’s ideas in my own words for the summary writing. Additionally, I could distinguish the form and substantiate the validity and soundness or cogency and strength of the author’s argument. I could identify underlying assumptions, fallacies and attempts to appeal to ethos, pathos, and/or logos in the author’s argument as well. I also paid greater attention to the language and looked out for any statistical evidence and counterargument that the author uses to support his argument when doing the

The second part of the book “Writing Today” discussed the importance of writing summaries, as well as how to go about writing them. Johnson-Sheehan, Paine, Shaw, and Stouck, begin by explaining that a summary’s main purpose is to emphasize an ideas main topic by first carefully analysing it. It is important to know the approximate length a summary should be before commencing the writing process in order to know how much detail the summary requires. A summary, although condensed, must accurately explain the original text. If not, it might cause misunderstandings as well as “distortions” of the material. Summaries must also be original and should primarily be written in writer’s own words, which would also their own ideas and thoughts to be present

assigning a thematic summaries. The summaries were then reviewed and analyzed so overarching themes could be established. It was found that the interviewee routinely made references to her subordinates, collecting information, listening, and her vision which aligned with the school mission statement. Within the transcript the themes were then assigned the color codes green, orange, pink, and blue respectively. Three additional codes were also introduced to provide clarity to the piece. Statements and questions made by the interviewer when highlighted in gray. Instances where the interviewee referred to herself and the staff as “us”, “we”, or “our” where highlighted in yellow. Also, instances of conflict as defined by Deustch, (1997), where highlighted in red. Final conclusions could be drawn from the transcript once the color coding process had been completed.

In the past I had merely used summaries to help myself recall ideas and events in literature assigned for classes. I had also never thought that there could be types of summaries. I enjoyed writing in different styles when summarizing the TED Talk Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality, which was written as an explanatory summary which, according to the Blugold Guide, is a summary where “you repeatedly refer to the author of the work and indicate how the piece was organized through your choice of verbs and transition words” (Blugold Guide 55). Here is an example of my work: “In his 2017 TED talk, your brain hallucinates your conscious reality, Anil Seth opens his speech by examining what consciousness truly is. Seth starts by explaining the impact anesthetic has on your mind before and after surgery” (Rohloff 1). This clearly shows my ability to summarize using transitions and proper verbiage. This contrasts with my informative summary from Beware of the Leopard which was used to “capture in your own words the important ideas found in the source text” as shown here: “While the appeal of a website is vital to attracting users it often forces the benefit of user-friendliness to an inferior position. Many websites focus so much on glamor that the website fails to enhance the user’s experience rather than attract them to delve further” (Rohloff 1). These summarizing skills helped me move forward to write more complex pieces this

determine the components of text complexity and become acquainted with tools to perform complexity analyses of texts.

It is also necessary to dig for more information about the topic so that you will know what to eliminate when summarizing a given content.

RI 1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RI 2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details. RI 3 Analyze how the author unfolds a series of ideas or events. RI 4 Determine the meaning of words as they are used in a text. L 5 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships.