A summary is a brief presentation of the main idea and main supporting ideas of a source. It therefore requires careful reading and analysis: you are providing your reader with an account of the most important ideas from a source
Your summary should be complete: it should include all of the source’s main ideas.
Is should be objective and accurate: it should reflect the ideas of the source, not your own ideas or views.
It should be clear and independent: it should make sense to a reader who hasn’t read Tokumitsu and Slaughter and it should be written mostly in your own words.
It should begin with the main idea of the source, and include the full name of the writer and the title of the source. Use this template:
In “Title,” Name of writer [signal verb] that x [the main idea, claim or proposition].
Thus: In “A Toxic Work World”, Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that . . .
Complete the sentence with the main claim.
