Summarization helps you to determine essential ideas and consolidate important details that support them. It also enables you to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering. Thus, it teaches you how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding. Summary is a shortened version of a text that highlights its key points. To summarize is to retell a story in your own words. Writing a summary requires you to make use of your own words, make the original composition shorter, and tell only the important points in the beginning, middle and end. Don't forget also the who (who are the characters), what (what did the characters want), where (where did the story happen), when (when did the story happen), why (state the conflict) and how (how did the story end). The process of writing a summary is further discussed in the following important steps enumerated below.​