Summary writing

A summary should include the title of the article that is being summarized.

• always

• sometimes

• never

The topic sentence in a summary should include the author's name and the thesis of the article.

• usually

• sometimes

• never

A summary should cover only main ideas from the article.

• true

• false

A summary should include details and examples from the article.

• true

• false

A summary should contain quotations from the article.

• not usually

• always

A summary should include your ideas and opinions.

• always

• never

• If I feel like it.

A summary needs transition words between ideas.

• always

• maybe

• never

A summary should contain a concluding sentence.

• maybe

• always

• sometimes

A summary should present the ideas from the article in the same order as they are written in the article.

• true

• false

A summary should contain copied text from the article.

• maybe

• sometimes

• never