The Standard Summary - Form and Function
As Part of a Response or Position Paper
As Part of an Annotated Bibliography
Steps For Summarizing Support
Back to Process For Summarizing Support- Read through the article again, listing every example, quote, or argument the author uses.
- Look through your list for commonalities or categories of proof. For example, does the author use several different types of statistical analyses or does she rely on other published sources?
- Write a summary sentence that introduces all the different categories of proof.
- Provide one or two representative examples from your list. Choose examples that are either the most common or the most persuasive.