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While longer descriptions may appear to provide more information, a concise summary can highlight the most important plot elements. By focusing attention on the larger structures of the plot and leaving out unnecessary trivial detail, a shorter summary can often help the reader to better understand the work.
An executive summary (or management summary, sometimes also called speed read) is a short document or section of a document produced for business purposes. It summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all.
We should also probably have some summaries that don't closely follow the essay, but which are still good summaries. If there are any, that is. The point is to give more insight in what is a good summary.--Laukku TheGreit (Talk•Contribs) 10:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Citizen Kane's plot summary is good, but with a few pieces of prose. I agree ...
The literary theory of Russian Formalism in the early 20th century divided a narrative into two elements: the fabula (фа́була) and the syuzhet (сюже́т). A fabula is the chronology of the fictional world, whereas a syuzhet is a perspective or plot thread of those events. Formalist followers eventually translated the fabula/syuzhet ...
The topic sentence acts as a kind of summary, and offers the reader an insightful view of the paragraph's main ideas. [3] More than being a mere summary of a paragraph, however, a topic sentence often provides a claim or an insight directly or indirectly related to the thesis. It adds cohesion to an academic text and helps organize ideas not ...
If a paragraph is preceded by a title or subhead, the indent is superfluous and can therefore be omitted. [2] The Elements of Typographic Style states that "at least one en [space]" should be used to indent paragraphs after the first, [2] noting that that is the "practical minimum". [3] An em space is the most commonly used paragraph indent. [3]
You need to speed through this to describe the main plot, which takes up the remaining runtime: "Although initially skeptical, the couple experience unexplainable phenomena. By the end of the week, they have become frantic." Those 18 words can replace an entire paragraph of unwarranted detail in a 1500+ word plot summary.
The lead paragraph (sometimes spelled "lede") [Q] of newspaper journalism is a compressed summary of only the most important facts about a story. These basic facts are sometimes referred to as the "five Ws": who, what, when, where, and why. Journalistic leads normally are only one or two sentences long.