How to Write a Key Detail Summary A Key Detail summary shows that you have read and understood information and can distinguish
what is useful to support a Claim and Reason (even if you haven't discovered your claim yet). It is
common in many 100 and 200 level classes to get assignments that ask you to read a certain
number of articles and summarize them. This is also a very common type of writing assignment in
graduate school.
How to produce a summary:
1. Choose the key details based on the Guiding Questions:
2. Copy/paste original material
3. Delete trivial material unnecessary to understanding
4. Delete repetition
5. Condense using your own words
6. Revise for coherence; add attributions
The features of a summary: I
1. Represents the original accurately and fairly. Written with precise, accurate language in a
neutral, objective tone.
2. Never put any of your own ideas, opinions, or interpretations into the summary. This means
you have to be very careful of your word choice.
3. Periodically remind your reader that this is a summary by using phrases such as the article
claims, the author suggests, etc. These are Attributions.
4. Write a complete MLA citation at the end of your summary.

to avoid unnecessary repetition, not every chapter has a map exercise attached. write a one or two-sentence answer explaining the significance of the items 7, ¶ 3-4 - civilization began in the fertile crescent because villages needed careful “in an epic tale told not long after his reign, we find gilgamesh claiming

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

nobody is fidda write a whole essay