How to Write a Key Detail Summary A Key Detail summary shows that you have read and understood information and can distinguish
what is useful to support a Claim and Reason (even if you haven't discovered your claim yet). It is
common in many 100 and 200 level classes to get assignments that ask you to read a certain
number of articles and summarize them. This is also a very common type of writing assignment in
graduate school.
How to produce a summary:
1. Choose the key details based on the Guiding Questions:
2. Copy/paste original material
3. Delete trivial material unnecessary to understanding
4. Delete repetition
5. Condense using your own words
6. Revise for coherence; add attributions
The features of a summary: I
1. Represents the original accurately and fairly. Written with precise, accurate language in a
neutral, objective tone.
2. Never put any of your own ideas, opinions, or interpretations into the summary. This means
you have to be very careful of your word choice.
3. Periodically remind your reader that this is a summary by using phrases such as the article
claims, the author suggests, etc. These are Attributions.
4. Write a complete MLA citation at the end of your summary.

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sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

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