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How to Write a Summary

Read the entire article
Answer the six jouralistic questions Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why?
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Where? ____________________________________________________________________
When? ____________________________________________________________________
How? _____________________________________________________________________

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Why? ___________________________________________________________________

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Remember: The how and why questions are the hardest ones to answer. You must make inferences and educated guesses based on the facts in the article.

3. Use the above information to write a concise, cohesive, clear summary of the article. Use the back of this paper. Recheck your work for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

4. Document your source in the following manner at the end of your summary. Follow this example.

Quinn, Jane Bryant. "How to Buy Stocks." Time 16 Mar. 1991: 46-49

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Documentation of source:

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