Summary
When you summarize, you put the main idea of a source into your own words, including only the main points. Summaries are much shorter than the original text and take a broad overview.
You may write a summary of an entire source if you are creating an Annotated Bibliography, which is a list of citations of sources that includes a brief paragraph about each source. These paragraphs are called annotations.
Your teacher may ask you to create an Annotated Bibliography during the Locate (Step 2) or Organize (Step 3) phases of your research assignment. This shows your teacher that you have appropriately evaluated and read your sources.
Example Annotation:
Example Annotation:
