Balancing summary with analysis for a multimodal text

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If you have written a summary of a text, you may find it useful to refer to the main points of the summary as you write your analysis. Your readers may or may not be familiar with the multimodal text you are analyzing and will need at least some summary to ground your analysis.

The following strategies will help you balance summary with analysis.

Student writer Ren Yoshida summarized the Equal Exchange advertisement by first describing part of the text, allowing readers to get their bearings, and then moving to an analytical statement about that particular part of the text.

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