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to the child's emotion. Instead, parents should put off talking with the            Example of Summary with Too Many Details and Examples
child about the issue until everyone is calmer.                               Included
       While this summary is accurate, it includes some points that do
                                                                                     In her article, «Surviving the Teen Years,» Lynn Utzman-
not really help the reader understand the main ideas of the source mate-
                                                                              Nichols proposes ways for parents to cope with the «emotional rol-
rial. For instance, the observation that teenagers see themselves as «the
                                                                              lercoaster» their adolescent children ride through their teen years.
centre of the universe» is not a main idea, but simply one reason why
                                                                              Physical changes such as the onset of menstruation do cause some of
teenagers are so insecure, (which is a main idea). Also, the fact it was a
                                                                              the changes parents see. For example, a nurse Utzman-Nichols inter-
nurse that the author interviewed does not tell us what the author's
                                                                              viewed recalled how a friend's daughter seemed to have «PMS for
ideas were. And do we really need to know why adolescents are often
                                                                              three years.» However, this same nurse said that teenagers' lack of se-
emotionally out of control at home in order to understand what to
                                                                              curity about their place in society and their tendency to see themselves
do about it?
                                                                              as «the center of the universe,» are larger factors in their outbursts at
       The following summary is much more effective in sticking to
                                                                              home. Teenagers often show their emotions most openly at home be-
main ideas and eliminating unnecessary detail.
                                                                              cause that's where they feel they can be the most unguarded. Utzman-
       As Lynn Utzman-Nichols argues in her article, «Surviving the
                                                                              Nichols also interviewed a doctor who said that these emotions come
Teen Years,» parents can cope with the moodswings of their adolescent
                                                                              about because adolescents are caught between two worlds--that of the
children by understanding the emotional causes for the changes and
                                                                              child and the adult. They feel like they don't belong in either place, that
keeping their cool even while their teenagers lose theirs. Although
                                                                              they are alone. Parents should be aware, Utzman-Nichols says, that
hormones do contribute to some of the changes parents see, Utzman-
                                                                              they are not really the cause of the emotions, just an easy target to
Nichols feels that worries about their place in society are a larger factor
                                                                              throw them at. It is hard for parents to not feel put down at such times,
in causing stress for teenagers. Parents should understand that the rea-
                                                                              but they should strive to not get caught up in responding to the child's
son their children sometimes lash out at them is because they are
                                                                              emotion. Instead, the doctor she interviewed advised parents to become
frightened and unsure of themselves. She urges them not to take their
                                                                              «deaf» during arguments, and tell their children they'll talk about the
teenager's anger personally, but to remain calm and postpone talking
                                                                              problem at a later, calmer moment.
about the source of the anger until a calmer moment arrives.
                                                                                     In this summary, the writer has repeated many of the examples
       Here the main ideas of this passage are covered succinctly and
                                                                              given in the original source. For example, we are given the detail of the
completely – teenagers have emotional outbursts because they are
                                                                              girl who had «PMS for three years» and we hear that Utzman-Nichols
frightened and insecure and parents should keep their cool about the
                                                                              interviewed a nurse and a doctor for her article. Also, this writer has
outbursts.
                                                                              included the same example of a physical change, menstruation, that the
                                                                              author originally offered. It is inappropriate to include these kind of
      4. Excluding Details and Examples from Summaries
                                                                              details in a summary as it doesn't tell us so much what the author's
       One trap students often fall into when summarizing is feeling the      main ideas were, but rather how she backed up her points. It may cause
need to include all the details from the original source material. They       your reader to lose the focus of your paper instead of thinking about
often list the examples the author gave to support their points, rather       ways to cope with teenagers' emotions (your subject), they might start
than just restating the main ideas of the source. An effective summary        thinking about other types of physical changes, or wondering which
avoids including the evidence, examples or descriptive details given in       specific doctor the author interviewed.
the summarized work or passage.


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