Summarize the main point of the chapter or article and analyze it to show whether or not it effectively persuades readers of its claim.
Select one of our course readings so far. Carefully read your chosen text and offer roughly one page of summary and three pages of analysis with additional details from the text.
How to Summarize:
The purpose of a summary is to explain what someone else said. You should outline the point of your chapter’s argument and explain how the writer supports that point. In summaries, you need to introduce the author and title at the start of your summary and that you need to keep using signal phrases to show that the ideas belong to the text. Review Read Up, Write Up Summary and Analysis chapter, “Her Point Is: The Art of Summarizing,” and “As He Himself Puts It: The Art of Quoting” for examples and templates. Begin your descriptive summary pages with a one sentence account of the selection, and then identify its content and structure in an organized fashion.
