Writing Summaries: A Review

Which of the followng should appear at the beginning of your summary?

• Full name of the author

• A list of all of the main ideas in the text

• Full name of the text

• Overview of the topic covered by the text

A summary should be written in the past tense.

• False

• True

A summary should be selective, which means that you only include those ideas that support your thesis statement.

• True

• False

A summary is concise when it eliminates repetitions and is shorter than the original text.

• False

• True

When you are writing a summary, you should include all of the most important quotes.

• False

• True

One way to help make your summary coherent is to use transitions.

• True

• False

Your reader must have read the original text in order to understand your summary.

• True

• False

A summary does not include personal opinion.

• True

• False