Posted: December 19th, 2016

Writing Summaries: Student Selection from Connect

Option #2: Writing Summaries: Student Selection from Connect
Summary is a natural place to start any writing activity that involves reading other texts. Summary is
often used as a prewriting step to clarify the author’s actual message and purpose. Often this involves
active reading, highlighting passages, annotating in the margins, and rereading. It’s very difficult to use
someone else’s words and ideas when you aren’t certain what is really going on in the text.
For this assignment, you are asked to compose an effective summary of an essay from Connect or a
professional essay or article of your choosing with instructor approval. To help you compose an effective
summary, please review the linked document How to Write a Summary. Also, be sure to refer to the
active reading strategies you reviewed and practiced in Module 1.
Concepts to keep in mind when writing a successful summary:
 Summary definition: a summary provides a concisely expressed explanation of the selection’s
content: what the author’s main points are, what particular methods the author uses, etc. Your
focus in summary writing is always on the primary and main supporting points rather than on
the details of the text.
 The text is objective: this means you should not editorialize or evaluate the text by either
reading between the lines or judging the article as “masterful” or “insulting,” etc.
 The text is in third person: For a brief summary like this there are no reasons for any “I”
statements like “I think she’s saying…” or “I believe…,” etc.
 The author is the subject in most, if not all sentences. Remember, it is people who write, not
articles, so avoid phrases such as “The article is saying…” Instead, start most sentences with
subject/verb like this: “Heywood argues…,” “The author claims…,” “She supports her assertion
with…,” etc.

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