Culture through English A: Summary writing・要約について

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce summary (要約) writing to you. From here if you ever want to do any presentation, you should have a summary for it. 

Now let's look at summary writing!

Summary writing
What is a summary? It is a short statement of purpose (SOP) that shows what your presentation topic is, and what you will show in it. 

Let's look at an example of a summary for our first assignment about our identities. What would a presentation summary for this topic look like? 


First, show a little background to the topic - in this case, about yourself (例えば):

While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well.

Next, show some details (詳細) about your topic - in this case, yourself (例えば):

While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking.

After that, show a little more detail (例えば):

While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking. My father is a great cook and he encouraged me to learn how to cook.

Finally, show in a direct (直接) way what you will present about 
(例えば):

While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking. My father is a great cook and he encouraged me to learn how to cook. In this presentation today, I will tell you more about myself, my hobbies and interests, and what I am like as a person. 


So now this is what your finished summary should look like 
(例えば):

While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking. My father is a great cook and he encouraged me to learn how to cook. In this presentation today, I will tell you more about myself, my hobbies and interests, and what I am like as a person. 

This is only 79 words long. Most summaries should run only around 60-80 words in length, though for more complex topics, they can go up to 100 words. 

I hope this can help you with your summary writing! 

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the classes! クラスにようこそ！

Hello!

How are you? Welcome to my blog, Daito Learning Pages! On it I will sometimes post videos, pictures and other things for you for our classes. You can write comments here too. We can have fun in these classes!

ブログにようこそ！ブログが授業のためにヴィデオ、写真、画像やアップする。どちでも英語とか日本語コメントの書くができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Now - I will show you a little bit about myself. The picture above is my "hello" to all of you. The picture looks a little strange. It's not me - it's an image from a CD cover! But I like the image and the colors. 

Here is a little introduction about me and the classes. You have to guess a few things first, so let's get started!

 

So that's all for now! I'll be glad to "see" all of you from next week! 

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Culture through English A: Summary writing・要約について

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce summary (要約) writing to you. Writing a summary will be very important for your presentation preparation (準備). 

Starting with our first presentation assignment, you will always have a summary for every presentation you will do in this class. 

As a refresher, here are the board notes from our class last week (5/8):

Now let's look at summary writing!

Summary writing
What is a summary? It is a short statement of purpose (SOP) that shows what your presentation topic is, and what you will show in it. 

Let's look at an example of a summary for the topic we will do for our first short presentation about ourselves. 

First, show a little background to the topic - in this case, about yourself:

例えば：
While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. 

Next, show some details (詳細) about your topic - in this case, yourself: 

例えば：
While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking. 

Finally, show in a direct (直接) way what you will present about: 

例えば：
While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also gaming and cooking. In this presentation today, I will tell you more about myself, and my hobbies and interests. 

So now this is what your finished summary should look like: 

例えば：
While I am in my second year now at Daito Bunka and am studying British and American literature like all of you, I have other hobbies and interests as well. I enjoy reading books, especially novels, but also enjoy gaming and cooking. In this presentation today, I will tell you more about myself, and my hobbies and interests. 

This is only 58 words long. Most summaries should run only around 50-75 words in length, though for more complex topics, they can go up to 100 words.  

I hope this can help you with your summary writing. 

See you next week!

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the classes! A self-introduction・クラスにようこそ！自己紹介

Hello!

How are you? Welcome to this class! Here's a little self-introduction about myself, and about how I view my classes. 

First, a little about myself. 

See you then!

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