6. Know the main ideas or the key information in what you are summarizing.
7. A summary should not be based on the original
piece.
8. A summary should be kept long and complex.
9. One must remember to be as objective as
possible.
10.It pays to know which details are important and
which information may be omitted without altering
the meaning of the source material.
11. Using one’s own words makes the summary
easier to read and understand.
12. A summary needs to be concise.
13. Coherence is a key feature of a good summary.
14. It should not sound like a set of disjointed
sentences when read.
15. You should include your personal opinion on the
ideas in the original text.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man