The Art of Summarizing

I focused on the section that talked about summarizing your paper. In this section it talks about the fact that as a writer we should be confident in what it is that we are writing about because then we can suspend our beliefs into our writing, as well as incorporate what others have to say about the subject matter. When a person can place themselves into the other writer’s shoes, and try to understand the points that they are making, then there is more room for writing a paper that is more interesting for the reader. As long as the writer can stay true to the topic and draw ideas from not only their own viewpoint but also from the other person’s perspective, then they have done a good job in summarizing their passage.

Something else that should try to be avoided is list summaries. They make the piece of writing boring for the reader and in a sense ruins the writers work.

When I go back to re-read my rough draft of my paper on health, I will check to see if I summarized everything to the best of my ability. If I have not I will see what I can do to change it, whether that is to get rid of boring lists or to focus more on what J.H. Kellogg was trying to get at. I want to make sure that I do not have just my thoughts on the certain topics coming out and onto my writing but that I have also incorporated his thoughts on the subject matter into my writing. If my paper is balanced between what I feel about the topic and what the other person feels about on the topic then I will feel good about what I have written. However, if this is not the  case I will fix it so that my paper sounds better.