NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (1) BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASING, AND SUMMARIZING (1)

 

Paraphrasing Learning to paraphrase quickly and effectively will help you understand and remember the main points and important details from reading passages and lectures. Paraphrasing is also an important skill to use in the integrated tasks on the TOEFL iBT test. If you can paraphrase what you’ve heard or read, your speech or essay will be clearer and more accurate. Summarizing You will need to learn how to clearly summarize what you have read or heard in order to succeed on the TOEFL test as well as in your university studies. A summary differs from a paraphrase in that it does not present a full account of the material, but rather describes only the major points. An effective summary is concise, clear, and coherent, and much shorter than the original text. Exercises NPS1-NPS10 Use Exercises NPS1-NPS10 to reflect on your note-taking strategies and to practice paraphrasing and summarizing. EXERCISE NPS1 Thinking about methods of note-taking Read the lecture excerpt. Below the excerpt are examples of five different ways to organize notes on the excerpt. Check (√) the ones that you think would be useful to you. In the Americas, two complex societies emerged at the end of the first millennium BCE: the Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica and the Moche/Nazca states in Peru. 1. Column or charting method 2. Outline method 3. Mind map method 3. Pyramid method 5. Flow chart method

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