At a basic level, to identify key points is to identify key words, that is, content area words, usually, nouns. The nouns provide the most information about ideas since nouns are people, places, things and ideas.
A topic sentence in some text types convey main ideas of paragraphs. However, in such a text type as a newspaper article, the first sentence in a paragraph may not give you a clue as to what the paragraph is about. Or, the sentence may be the only sentence in the paragraph and therefore, while giving you information about the paragraph, doesn't provide much information about the text's main idea.
To avoid distorting a text's meaning when summarizing, you need to comprehend the text first. In other words, what ideas is the text conveying, and in what way? This is reading at a fundamental level.
We'll work on summarizing in week 13. You should be completing the exercises in the book.
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