{"id":261,"date":"2017-07-25T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-writ250\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=261"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:12:40","slug":"how-to-summarize-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-writ250\/chapter\/how-to-summarize-an-overview\/","title":{"raw":"How to Summarize: \u00a0An Overview","rendered":"How to Summarize: \u00a0An Overview"},"content":{"raw":"A summary is a brief explanation of a longer text. \u00a0Some summaries, such as the ones that accompany annotated bibliographies, are very short. \u00a0Others are much longer, though summaries are always much shorter than the text being summarized in the first place. Summaries of different lengths are useful in research writing because you often need to provide your readers with an explanation of the text you are discussing. \u00a0This is especially true when you are going to quote or paraphrase from a source.\r\n\r\nOf course, the first step in writing a good summary is to do a thorough reading of the text you are going to summarize in the first place. \u00a0Beyond that important start, there are a few basic guidelines you should follow when you write summary material:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong> Stay \u201cneutral\u201d in your summarizing<\/strong>. \u00a0Summaries provide \u201cjust the facts\u201d and are not the place where you offer your opinions about the text you are summarizing. \u00a0Save your opinions and evaluation of the evidence you are summarizing for other parts of your writing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong> Don\u2019t quote from what you are summarizing.<\/strong> \u00a0Summaries will be more useful to you and your colleagues if you write them in your own words with your own syntax.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Don\u2019t \u201ccut and paste\u201d from database abstracts.<\/strong> \u00a0Many of the periodical indexes that are available as part of your library\u2019s computer system include abstracts of articles. \u00a0Do not \u201ccut\u201d this abstract material and then \u201cpaste\u201d it into your own annotated bibliography. \u00a0First, this is plagiarism. \u00a0Second, \u201ccutting and pasting\u201d from the abstract defeats one of the purposes of writing summaries and creating an annotated bibliography in the first place: to help you understand your research by explaining it.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>A summary is a brief explanation of a longer text. \u00a0Some summaries, such as the ones that accompany annotated bibliographies, are very short. \u00a0Others are much longer, though summaries are always much shorter than the text being summarized in the first place. Summaries of different lengths are useful in research writing because you often need to provide your readers with an explanation of the text you are discussing. \u00a0This is especially true when you are going to quote or paraphrase from a source.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the first step in writing a good summary is to do a thorough reading of the text you are going to summarize in the first place. \u00a0Beyond that important start, there are a few basic guidelines you should follow when you write summary material:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Stay \u201cneutral\u201d in your summarizing<\/strong>. \u00a0Summaries provide \u201cjust the facts\u201d and are not the place where you offer your opinions about the text you are summarizing. \u00a0Save your opinions and evaluation of the evidence you are summarizing for other parts of your writing.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Don\u2019t quote from what you are summarizing.<\/strong> \u00a0Summaries will be more useful to you and your colleagues if you write them in your own words with your own syntax.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t \u201ccut and paste\u201d from database abstracts.<\/strong> \u00a0Many of the periodical indexes that are available as part of your library\u2019s computer system include abstracts of articles. \u00a0Do not \u201ccut\u201d this abstract material and then \u201cpaste\u201d it into your own annotated bibliography. \u00a0First, this is plagiarism. \u00a0Second, \u201ccutting and pasting\u201d from the abstract defeats one of the purposes of writing summaries and creating an annotated bibliography in the first place: to help you understand your research by explaining it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-261\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Steven D. 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