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RCS 490 Special Topics: Audience Research, Insights and Analysis

Tips for Summarizing Articles

Summarizing an article can help you better understand the main idea. Here are some tips and ideas for summarizing a scholarly article:

Summarizing Articles Table - Handout

Adapted from Markowski, Brianne, "Lesson Plan: Reading and Synthesizing Journal Articles" (2016). Information Literacy. 6.  https://digscholarship.unco.edu/infolit/6Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.