What else you need to know: summarising texts
As well as providing a summary of the main points, you need to show the relationship between the important points. This means that it’s important that you discuss ideas in the order in which the writer has written them. You must also write your summary so that the writer’s original meaning is kept intact, even though you’ve used your own words.You are only being asked to identify important ideas and supporting details. An idea is a point or argument that the writer makes. Supporting details are the examples used to back up the main ideas.
