1. Summary vs. Analysis
By: Kayla Hume

2. What’s the Difference
Summary Analysis
• Retelling the story using • Take the story apart into
the main points of the pieces and examine what
plot, characters, and is going on.
setting. • Use analytical thinking to
• Not giving any opinion explain why something is
• Summary can benefit happening in the text, and
analysis by giving the argue for that.
reader a simple
background of the text

3. Is it a Summary??
• Is this obvious from the text? If “yes” then it’s
a summary
• Am I describing what happened not why? If
“yes” it’s a summary
• Is what I wrote wrong? If “no” then you are
summarizing.
• Usage of weak verbs=summary
• About… If you are telling about the text it’s a
summary.

4. The Trouble With
Summary
You are not telling why
something happened, you are
simply stating what
happened. We know the
what now we need to know
the why.
You are not using the
analytical skills every person
has. They are very valuable in
the world and if you
summarize everything you are
not using them to their
potential.

5. How to tell it’s an Analysis?
• You are not telling the reader what they
already know, you are telling them why.
• You have to think about the story as a whole
and connect it to an event that explains it.
• After you have analyzed to the max, you can
form an argument based on the information
you gathered about the text.

6. Analysis is Good!!!
After you learn to
analyze a text then you
turn it into an
argument related to
politics, history, or even
the issues in society.
You then are able to
tell someone why the
author wrote the text
the way he/she did,
and what importance it
has on today's world.

7. Why is this useful?
• Teaches you to be a • Helps develop good
better thinker. Once you argumentative skills
start to analyze you will that can help all
never stop. throughout life in work,
• It helps you to find family problems, and in
meaning behind the other classes.
ideas, themes, and • Analytical skills are
events in a text or even extremely valuable to:
movie. English & History
majors, Law students,
and even doctors!!

8. Be analytical!!!!
Don’t be like an owl and only think about “Whoooooo”. 

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