Summary
To be an active reader you must follow some
guidelines to help focus and understand what you read. First get familiar with
the writer’s style of writing, note interesting details that you notice, reread
to make sure you fully understand what the writer is trying to say, and apply
critical thinking strategies. Another thing active readers do is note what they
are reading, annotating each paragraph and writing their thoughts about specific
details and writing outlines on what they have read. To write and effective
summary mention the title of the text, be objective, quote when needed and
present only a few main points the writer talked about. Remember that the
difference between a summary and an analysis is the question they answer:
summary answers what and analysis
answers how. When analyzing remember
to relate key parts of the story, the writers effectiveness of telling the
story and getting their points across and what questions did the writer leave
un answered and answered.
Reader
Response
I think that taking the time to outline a story or
visual before writing a summary can be useful but I also think that it is a
waste of time. Although an outline can help the reader organize his/her
thoughts, I think outlines should be saved for more challenging writing
assignments like a paper about the story: then an outline would help but to
waste an outline to write something as simple as a summary is foolish. However I
think going through stories and writing little side notes to yourself and analyzing
important paragraphs can be helpful and useful when writing summaries and analyses.
I also didn’t know that summaries were supposed to answer what while analysis’s answer how,
that should help me write more effectively. 
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