To write your summary, first scan thedocument you are summarizing to get an overall impression.
Then read it carefully, highlightingor underlining the most significant information.
You will want to especially pay closeattention to the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
Usually the first sentence is the topicsentence and the last a summary of the paragraph so they will have the mostimportant ideas.
The First Sentence:
An easy way to begin writing a summary isto refer to the author and what they have written about.
A general format for the first sentence isas follows…………………………………………………………………………