take notes
Usually it is considered to be drafting. See the link below.
evaluate the passage
Read the text you are summarizing
take notes
Summarizing is the term used for briefly providing the main ideas of a passage or source material. It involves restating the key points in a more concise form.
The final step when constructing a brief involves summarizing the findings.
The final step of conducting a brief is summarizing the findings. In order to do this, careful evaluation of the evidence presented is necessary.
The SQ4R strategy involves summarizing to understand written documents. This strategy involves surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, reflecting, and reviewing the material, with summarizing being a key step to grasp the main concepts and information.
You summarize a nonfiction passage much like a fictional passage, by highlighting the key points. When summarizing, it is important to stick to only the main points, and to limit details dramatically, without of course leaving anything supremely important out.
Explicit Directions
Read it first.
When summarizing a passage, I pick out the main points and condense the information into a shorter version without losing the key ideas. I focus on highlighting the most important details while removing any extraneous or repetitive information.