Schalk, Sami, “Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives

Expectations:

Identify the main/central argument of the author
Provide the author’s evidence or supporting claims

Avoid giving a chronological play-by-play of the article

Purpose

Summaries are useful tools to examine an article/text. In a “just the facts” summary, it is imperative that you (the writer) only deliver the author’s message and claims without personal judgement or opinion. Looking at a text from a bird’s eye view can help you better interpret the author’s claim, use the article for future reference, and critically think about a text without inserting yourself into the text.