Writing an Objective Summary Paragraph

We write informational pieces to...

• tell a story.

• give an opinion.

• inform the reader about a particular topic.

• entertain.

Objective means expressing or dealing with facts or without personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.

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Summarizes a text with facts and not opinions.

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Writing objective summaries can help you understand texts that you read and identify the most important information in the text.

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Objective Summaries does not have facts!

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What is a summary of an article?

• A summary is a shortened version of a text with the main idea and important supporting details included

• A summary is a set of direct quotes from the article

• A summary is the author's tone and the mood it creates

• A summary is an explanation of the captions, quotes, and subheadings of an article

What is an objective summary?

• An objective summary is a summary with direct quotes.

• An objective summary is a summary with no paraphrases.

• An objective summary is a summary with no opinions.

• An object summary is much shorter than a regulary summary.

What do you include in an objective summary?

• The central idea/main idea and supporting details

• the topic sentence and your opinion of the article

• The topic sentence and your favorite part of the article

• Responses to the article

Another term for central idea is:

• summary

• the topic

• inference

• main idea

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

• Who is the main character?

• What is the main event?

• What is one important detail?

• What point about the topic is the author trying to make?