![]() ![]() ![]() You may include some very brief summary within a literature paper, but only as much as necessary to make your own interpretation, your thesis, clear. If you are writing a literature paper, for example, your teacher probably does not want you to simply write a plot summary. When you analyze a piece of writing, you generally summarize the contents briefly in order to establish for the reader the ideas that your essay will then go on to analyze, but a summary is not a substitute for the analysis itself. A summary, on the other hand, does not require you to critique or respond to the ideas in a text. ![]() An analysis is a discussion of ideas, techniques, and/or meaning in a text. Many students make the mistake of confusing summary with analysis. Instead, you should extract only those elements that you think are most important-the main idea (or thesis) and its essential supporting points, which in the original passage may have been interwoven with less important material. To include every detail is neither necessary nor desirable. To summarize is to condense a text to its main points and to do so in your own words. When you write a summary, you are demonstrating your understanding of the text and communicating it to your reader. When you underline and annotate a text, when you ask yourself questions about its contents, when you work out an outline of its structure, you are establishing your understanding of what you are reading. THE WRITING PROCESS Guidelines for Writing a Summary ![]()
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