Balancing summary with analysis for a written text

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Your readers may or may not be familiar with the text you are analyzing, so you need to summarize the text briefly to help readers understand the basis of your analysis. The following strategies will help you balance summary with analysis.

Notice how student writer Emilia Sanchez balances summary with analysis in her essay about the article on big-box stores. Before stating her thesis in the last sentence, Sanchez summarizes the article’s purpose and central idea.

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