Your goal in summarizing an image or a multimodal text is to state the work’s central idea and key points simply, objectively, and accurately in your own words, usually in paragraph form. Since a summary must be fairly short, you must make judgments about what is most important. The guidelines in the chart will help you write a summary of an image or a multimodal text. If you created an outline of the text, that can serve as the starting point for your summary.