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+Academic writing is always part of a broader conversation. It is common, in writing for academic audiences, to cite past works, acknowledging the body of work that has contributed to your present understanding.
+It cannot be expected for any reader to be familiar with all of these works, so a summary is made for the benefit of the reader. The most important aspect of summary writing is simply that it be comprehensible--a summary that does not simplify is a poor summary. 
+Further, a summary must of course hold true to the original content of the work; a summary is not the place to inject analysis or critique. It may be said that there are five principal components to a summary: the identification of the author, the date of publication, the nature of the argument, the details of the argument, and the context of the argument.