For students who have difficulty in learning from the text, teachers adopt summarizing as a developmental intervention process. This is because summarization is not implicit; It is a structure based on knowledge, education, guidance, awareness, skill and belief in the student. The aim of the research is to determine the characteristics and orientations of articles and theses related to the ability to summarize. The main reason for this research is the fact that there is no study examining the tendencies of the studies on summarizing skills. In this direction, 22 theses and 40 articles, which were determined in the literature review made by considering various criteria, were examined in terms of their general characteristics, methodological aspects, aims, subjects and main results. In the research, in which the document analysis method was used, the data were analyzed with descriptive content analysis. Regarding the general characteristics of the studies examined, it was determined that the most research on summarization was done in 2019, 35% of the articles were produced from theses, the most postgraduate thesis was made among the theses, and only 3 of the studies were published in the SSCI and field indexes. The results of the researches related to the methodological features; Quantitative research approach and descriptive survey model come to the fore in summarizing studies, the participant group is mostly composed of primary school students, the researches are carried out with 1-50 participants at most, the most used sampling method is random sampling, the most used data collection tool is scale, the most used shows that the data analysis method is the T-Test for unrelated samples. The studies examined according to the purpose and the results of the research were mostly carried out on summarization performance for the purpose of determining the situation. Finally, the characteristics of the main results of the studies examined are given under 4 themes: "summary writing success", "summarization strategies", "affective aspect of summarizing" and "summarizing in Turkish course elements". It is thought that the research will contribute to the researches about summarization.
