Often reporters break what might be a long, one-sentence, summarizing lead into a very short sentence followed by a long one, or into a number of brief sentences, each of which gives one important detail.
When the speaker, the subject, the occasion, and the place are all important, it may be needful to make a long summarizing lead of several paragraphs, explaining all these features in detail.
Such leads, sometimes known as "human interest" leads, are admittedly more difficult than those of the summarizing type, their difficulty being but one effect of the cause which makes them necessary.
Lead Beginning with a Conditional Clause=--The lead beginning with a conditional clause is valuable for humorous effects or for summarizing facts leading up to a story.
The story may then proceed with summarizing quotations or indirect statements of the individual speakers, giving each space according to the value of his address.
The summarizing lead may be a single sentence or a single paragraph, or two or three paragraphs, according to the number and complexity of the details in the story.
Long summarizingleads of speeches are to be avoided as a rule, since they are liable to become overloaded and cumbersome.
In such stories it is the reporter writing the general summary who compiles the summarizing figures boxed at the beginning, giving the total attendance and receipts and making comparison with preceding events.
And even then it is better, as a rule, to print the entire decision separately and write an independentsummarizing story.
Then the body, as in reports of speeches, may follow with interesting bits of quotation from the testimony or from the arguments of the attorneys, with summarizing paragraphs of the evidence and the proceedings as a whole.
And the body follows usually with direct quotationssummarizing the whole.
Oftentimes the theme lead shades into a summarizing lead and the two become one of indirect quotation.
If he wishes a detailed account, all the plays should be given, the reporter following the chronological order after a full, summarizing lead.
The summarizing lead gives in interesting, concise language the gist of the story.
The only safe plan for the novice, therefore, is to confine himself at first exclusively to the summarizing lead.
When reporting a speech or interview and alternately summarizing and quoting verbatim, do not include in the same paragraph a direct quotation and a condensed summary of what precedes or follows.
An attempt to give the views of both sides on this question would necessitate the summarizing and impartial discussion of all the experiments thus far made--a task entirely beyond the scope of the present work.
Each author words the shared material in his own style; one adding magniloquence, the other retracting to plain statement, indeed summarizing at times to obscurity.
The following section contains a later addition to the diary summarizing the action of 'Alam Khan before and after Babur heard of the defeat from the trader he mentions.
I do not see how, having small liberty of quotation, I could do better than take, as summarizing his meaning, this sentence which he gives as dissipating "any doubt.
The commander may properly include brief summarizing remarks as to the methods, broadly viewed, whereby he intends to take action.
When Cardinal Duprat convened his Synod of Paris in 1528 to discuss the new religion, Clichtove was summoned and was entrusted with the task of collecting and summarizing the objections to the Lutheran doctrine.
Summarizing conditions precedent, we, therefore, find: I.
Summarizing the Outline of the Gospel here presented, we find: I.
To the admiration of Andrew he ran through the entries for each race, analysing their histories, summarizing their form, and picking out dead certainties with an esoteric knowledge derived from dark and mysterious sources.
Lessing employed in 1777, in summarizingthe similarities between Canticles and Theocritus.
He organized representations to the Senate and Chamber in Belgium, summarizing what was being done in the Congo and urging Belgium's moral responsibility.
On 5th June, then, Mulgrave penned for Gower a despatch summarizing Pitt's reasons why England must retain Malta.
A further value of cramming is that by means of such a summarizingreview one is able to see facts in a greater number of relations than before.
Summarizing his impressions of Russian life and institutions obtained while serving as Ambassador to Russia, Andrew D.
So instead of simply summarizing the information that has been presented in the papers, I want to give my own views about how we should use this information to make a case for the conservation of marine birds.
Summarizing the figures given we have the following cost per cubic yard of concrete in floors and columns: Per cu.
Summarizing the above figures we have the following cost per cubic yard of concrete in place: Item.
I will not repeat what is contained beyond summarizing that for over 130 years the Krupp enterprise has flourished by furnishing the German military machine its implements of war.
With an innate power of summarizing and balancing thoughts and sensations, he draws up arguments for and against this act.
Six reports were also submitted, summarizing the contents of a great number of further affidavits.
Use a summarizing word, in general, to collect the parts of a long complex sentence.
As one way of summarizing review lessons the children might enumerate the leading thoughts in close sequence, giving a careful wording for each in a full statement.
In summarizing it may be said that agriculture is being somewhat neglected and that the opportunity to earn money in the oyster industry acts as a constant deterrent to agricultural progress, if it is not directly injurious.
Summarizing conditions prevailing in the latter part of the second century, Milner says: "We have hitherto found it no hard matter to discover, in the teachers and writers of Christianity, the vital doctrines of Christ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summarizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
