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Purposes for Standard Summaries

Summaries help writers by capturing what we understand about an article we've read. For readers, summaries can serve a range of purposes, from assessing the writer's understanding of the article to helping decide if they want to read the original article. We explore in more detail these purposes for standard summaries:

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