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- Both outlining and summarizing are to identify the main ideas and restate them in your own words.
- Both outlining and summarizing are especially helpful strategies for understanding the content and structure of a reading selection.
- The key to both outlining and summarizing is being able to distinguish between the main ideas and the supporting ideas and examples.
- Both put ideas together again in your own words and in a condensed form
- Whereas outlining reveals the basic structure of the text, summarizing synopsizes a selection's main argument in brief.
- Outlining may be part of the annotating process, or it may be done separately. Summarizing is presented in a unit.
- Summarizing begins with outlining, but instead of merely listing the main ideas, a summary recomposes them to form a new text.
- When outlining depends on a close analysis of each paragraph, summarizing requires creative synthesis.
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