Summary and Analysis

Summarizing is considered to be the easy route taken in an essay to describe something. Now obviously a summery just states a generalized overview of a complete story but that is not its only purpose. A summery can also help to provide the argument for analysis and provides some information used by the writer to add incite to the reader on a particular part of a story. Summarizing is a tool used by writers often as a starting point of an essay. However a summery is often over used as useless filler information that the reader already knows. For more details of summarizing click here Another tool used by writers is analysis. The first step is to determine an aspect of your material to analyze. Once you have identified it, you must break it up into parts to be separately analyzed to more accurately determine the true meaning behind the text. When analyzing it helps to take note of the specific details you think may be important to your analysis of the piece. This way you can keep track of your facts to be used later. A good analysis includes a specific question about a major idea, information form the plot and setting that apply to the individual parts of the main idea you have broken apart and finally an explanation of a new understanding of the text brought up by your overall analysis.

A pyrimid of literary analysis provided by "profesorbaker", April 11, 2011, http://profesorbaker.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/literary-analysis-of-the-road-not-taken-by-robert-frost/

Now that we have summarized the meaning of summery and analysis we can analysis the differences between them. The main difference is that when concluded, a summery only describes details the reader already knows, whereas an Analysis actually concludes a new idea of the original using the ideas provided by the summery.