Types of Summaries

Introduction

Definition of Executive Summaries

Types of Summaries

Process for Writing Executive Summaries

Questions to Ask Yourself

Concise Statement of your Findings

Writing Recommendations

Simple Formula

More Complex Recommendations

Justification

Example Executive Summaries

Additional Resources

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Types of Summaries

Summaries written in order to recommend a specific course of action are executive summaries.

View Definition of Executive Summaries

Summaries that highlight the major points of a long piece are called abstracts. The purpose of an abstract is to allow readers to decide whether or not they want to read the longer text.

View our Writing Guide about Abstracts

Standard summary only refers to a summary of someone else's published work and is written for a variety of purposes.

View our Writing Guide about Standard Summaries