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Melancholy is a feeling of pensive sadness without an obvious cause. A summary is a shortened version of a larger text that describes its main points in 3 sentences or less. Writers use summaries to describe stories, articles, movies or other content in a more concise way by identifying the most important parts and describing them for someone unfamiliar with the original text.

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Melancholy is a feeling of pensive sadness without an obvious cause. A summary is a shortened version of a larger text that describes its main points in 3 sentences or less. Writers use summaries to describe stories, articles, movies or other content in a more concise way by identifying the most important parts and describing them for someone unfamiliar with the original text.

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• Melancholy

• a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with


Word of the no obvious cause:
• "an air of melancholy surrounded him"
day
• A summary is a piece of writing that tells the main ideas of
something. It is basically a shortened version of a larger
text that describes its main points. Writers use it to
What is a describe a story, article, movie, television show,
presentation or another piece of content in a more succinct
Summary? way. If you want to write an effective summary, you need
to be able to identify the most important parts of a text
and describe them to someone who may not be familiar
with the text.
• If you are writing a summary of a written
1. Carefully text, make sure to read it carefully. Take note
review the of what the author is saying and why they
are saying it. Likewise, when writing a
work you're summary about something you are
summarizin watching, make sure to take detailed notes.
You may even want to consider reading or
g watching the text multiple times to ensure
you caught all of the most important details,
information or plot points.
2. Underline
• Another way to ensure you are remembering
and important information is to highlight or
highlight underline words as you go. If you are
watching something, write down timestamps
important of when important things happen. This
makes it easier for you to look back on them
passages when you are writing your summary.
• Format your summary into sentences that
3. Write make up paragraphs. Get started by writing
down the down the main points of the text in your
own words. Make sure to write down these
main points main points as they were presented by the
author of the text, meaning that you should
write them in chronological order.
• Add in some major supporting points for
your main idea. While these are more
detailed sentences, make sure they connect
4. Add in to the rest of the text. There is no need to
supporting add in minor details if they do not add any
value to your summary. For instance, if the
points character's eye colour was not a major plot
point, there is no need to include it in your
summary. You only want to add general
information that will give the reader a high-
level understanding of the text.
• After you're finished writing your summary,
5. Proofread carefully proofread it. See if what you wrote
would make sense to someone who has
it never read or watched the text you are
writing about. Also, look for any grammatical
errors to ensure it is a well-written summary.
• Include the following in a summary

What to • Main ideas


• Supporting points

include in a • Plot points


• Important characters or people involved
summary • Important locations
• Facts or figures that stand out
• Major events that happened

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