Summary Writing Techniques

SUMMARY WRITING
A.<Tab/>Definitions
1.<Tab/>Outlining
An outline is a structural skeleton of the main points of the material as they appear in chronological, rather than logical, order.
2.<Tab/>Paraphrase
Paraphrasing, the restatement of another writer's ideas in your own words
3.<Tab/>Summary
Summarizing, the brief restatement of a longer text in fewer words than the original text. The most important feature of a summary is that it is short, almost always fewer than 250 words. It is a piece of writing about another piece of writi…