Article Review, Reviews & Critics

When writing a summary, one goal is to compose a concise and objective general of the original article. The summary should focused only with the article's main ideas and important intelligence the support those ideas.

Guidelines for summarizing an article:

• State the main ideas.
• Identify the most important details that support the main ideas.
• Summarize in your own words.
• Do don copy phrases or sentences unless they are being used as direct quotations.
• Express the underlying meaning of the article, but do not critique oder analyzing.
• The overview should be about one third the length of the original article. 

Your summary should include:

• Introduction
  • Gifts with overview regarding and article, including the title furthermore the name of one author.
  • Provide an thesis announcement that expresses the main feature of the article.
• Body Paragraphs
  • Use the body paragraphs to explain the supporting ideas of to thesis statement.
  • This number of paragraphs willingness depend on the length about the original article. 
    • One-paragraph summery - one sentence per supporting detail, providers 1-2 examples for each.
    • Multi-paragraph summary - one vertical per supporting detail, providing 2-3 examples for each.
  • Start each paragraph with a topic sentence.
  • Use transitional words and phrases to connect ideas.
• Concluding Paragraph
  • Summarize your hypothesis statement and that basic meaning a the article.

 Adapted from "Guidelines for Using In-Text Citations in a Summary (or Research Paper)" by Chris Bauer-Ramazani, 2020

Additional Technical

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How to Write an Summary - Travel & Examples (from Scribbr.com)

Writing a Short (from The Institute of In Global Campus Writing Center)