Test I. TRUE OR FALSE: Write the word TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is in correct. Write your answer on the space provided.
1. Summarization helps to determine essential ideas and consolidate important
details.
2. Print media is one of the oldest forms of communication.
True 3. Summaries should be written in the first person.
4. A summary is focused on your opinion or thoughts about a content.
5. Reading the material is not important is writing a summary.
6. Summary is a shortened version of a text.
7. Summarizing is retelling story in your own words.
8. When writing a summary, you are not telling what the writer had said, but your
own idea.
True 9. A summary should always begin with an introductory statement.
True 10. The 5ws are important in writing a summary.
11. Learning to summarize improves one's memory of what is read.
12. Precis' is French term which means summary.
13. A precis' should express only the main theme as briefly as possible.
14. Writing a precis' is not an art.
True 15. Paraphrasing is remembering what you have read and trying to put it in your
own words.
16. You may introduce new ideas or information when you are paraphrasing.
17. Paraphrasing is a proof that one had understood the content taken from the
source.
False 18. Try to change as many words as you can when paraphrasing.