Towards a Summary Writing Model

The development of the essential skills for writing an acceptable summary is demanding for the majority of language learners. The difficulty of learning the skills for summary writing has motivated a large number of studies in the field of English Language Teaching. Therefore, summarization is undoubtedly one of the most difficult and challenging academic activities for language learners, thus many researchers and practitioners advocate for instruction and recommend that efficient summarization skills do not develop effortlessly and automatically. Writing summary is not an easy task and nobody would expect students to summarize without much direction. Like any other new skill, for summarizing students need to be explicitly taught; but the most important part is having access to an efficient model of summary writing.