There are several resources available for writing article summaries, including online tools and guidelines. Here is a summary of the search results:
- When writing a summary, the goal is to compose a concise and objective overview of the original article. The summary should focus only on the article’s main ideas and important details that support those ideas. Guidelines for summarizing an article include stating the main ideas, identifying the most important details that support the main ideas, and summarizing in your own words
- An article summary is a short, focused paper about one scholarly article that is informed by a critical reading of that article. For argumentative articles, the summary identifies, explains, and analyzes the thesis and supporting arguments; for empirical articles, the summary identifies, explains, and analyzes the research questions, methods, findings, and implications of the study. One significant challenge in writing an article summary is deciding what information or examples from the article to include
- SMMRY is a tool that summarizes text to save time. Users can paste an article, text, or essay in the box and hit summarize, and the tool will return a shortened copy for them to read. Users can also summarize PDF and TXT documents by uploading a file or summarize online articles and webpages by pasting the URL
- ChatGPT is a tool that can be used to summarize an article. To ensure the summary is short and sweet, users can add a character limit or a range of acceptable lengths to their prompt. Limitations of summarizing with ChatGPT include the fact that it is still fairly new, so users should read the article in its entirety to avoid missing out on crucial details or nuance.
