W6-300 & 301

When you summarize a text, you briefly describe the most important ideas.

A summary starts by stating the central idea, or what the text is mostly about.

It supports the main idea with the most important, or relevant, details from the text.

It finishes with an interesting thought or detail.

Good writers describe the central idea and important details in their own words. They describe the details accurately and objectively, without adding their own opinions

Accurate/ Fact or Opinion?

Many crazy athletes get involved in extreme sports that are just too dangerous, and they do it for three main reasons.

This reflects the writers own view or opinion of extreme athletes

This is an opinion- phrases such as "just too dangerous" cannot be proven as factual-