How to Write a Good Article Summary

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Laura from young writers workshops dot com. I'm going to talk about how to write a good article summary. So you've written an article and you want to close it really strongly. I'm going to give you a few ideas about how to really sum up your article and give your readers a call to action. So the first sentence of your summary you want to summarize a kind of come up with a way to encapsulate all of what you've talked about. So for example, if you were talking about how to shop for produce, you'll want to you know, summarize using these tips that we've discussed. You'll have a good guide for choosing the best produce. A sentence that really helps the readers to bring back to mind what they've just read about and really sums it up for them. The next sentence might give a few illustrations from what you've mentioned that underlines that point so for example, a couple of ideas that you discussed in the story about that were important such as looking for high quality not bruised produce and looking for organic labels. Then your last sentence will give them a call to action, will help them to go out and use what they've learned for example, just remembering these tips you'll always have good luck in finding the best produce. So send them out to do their shopping with using the knowledge that they've read in your article and that's the way to write a good article summary."