To help students understand the form and function of a summary and to prepare them to write their own summary paragraphs. Students have read a sample summary (i.e., an abstract of an journal article) ...

Since the goal of a research paragraph is to offer a summary of the field, the topic sentence should assert a clear position about the state of current research. Simply quoting a variety of sources in ...

However, the final print length is at the editor’s discretion. Articles start with a fully referenced summary paragraph, ideally of no more than 200 words, which is separate from the main text ...