Guidelines for writing a summary of an image or a multimodal text

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  the first two sentences, mention the title of the text and the name of the composer (or the sponsoring organization or company if you cannot identify a composer), and provide some brief information about the context—when, why, and for whom the text was composed and where it appeared.
• State the text’s central idea or message.
• Maintain a neutral tone; be objective.
• As you present the text’s ideas, use the third-person point of view and the present tense: The focus of the Zipcar advertisement is. . . . Devaney’s slide presentation argues. . . .
• Keep your focus on the text. Don’t state the text’s or composer’s ideas as if they were your own.
• Put your summary in your own words; if you borrow a phrase or a sentence from the text, put it in quotation marks and cite the text.
• Limit yourself to presenting the text’s key points.