Summarizing and Synthesizing Information: The Evolution of Thought (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007)

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1. Retelling to Summarize Information

1.1. Remember to tell what is important

1.1.1. Session Rule 1

1.1.2. Session Rule 2

1.1.3. Session Rule 2

1.2. Tell it in a way that makes sense

1.3. Try not to tell too much

1.4. Bullet most important information into single words. "Then when you tell somebody, you can just look at your paper and put in all the rest of the words that are in your head" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 181-182).

2. Paraphrasing to Summarize Expository Text

2.1. What's Important (Essence)

2.2. What's Interesting (Rich Details) (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 183)

3. Checking for evidence of learning

3.1. "Students summarize information by retelling" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 198).

3.2. "Students become aware of when they add to their knowledge base and revise their thinking as they read" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 198).

3.3. "Students synthesize information through writing" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 198).

3.4. "Students use a variety of ways to synthesize information and share their learning" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 198).

4. Key Ideas

4.1. "One of the simplest yet most important considerations we can suggest to our kids is simply to notice their thinking before and after they have read or heard something" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 184).

4.2. "Responses are higher-level thinking than "just plain" summaries, becasue the reader's thinking is integrated with the information" (Harvey &Goudvis, 2007, pp. 186).

4.3. "We want our students to become aware of their thinking process as well so that they can call up a strategy to access content, particularly in difficult, more challenging text" (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 192).

5. How background knowledge impacts synthesizing

5.1. A lack of background knowledge leads to new perspectives (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 180)

5.2. Synthesizing information can help someone with a large knowledge base confirm and enhance what is already known (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 180).

5.3. Synthesizing strategies:

5.4. Summarize information

5.5. Listen to inner voice

5.6. Merge thinking to make information meaningful

5.7. Connect new to the known

5.8. Ask questions

5.9. Pick out most important info (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, pp. 180)