Question

What are four main components of an effective summary of a text?

Answer 1

A summary begins with an introductory sentence that states the text's title, author and main point of the text as you see it. A summary is written in your own words. A summary contains only the ideas of the original text. Do not insert any of your own opinions, interpretations, deductions or comments into a summary.

Answer 2

• read the article to be summarized and be sure its understandable.
• note major points.
• write a first draft of the summary without looking at the article.
• make sure what you wrote is important and not copied.
• target your draft of being like 1 forth of the original.