Difference of Summary and Analysis

The difference between a summary and an analysis is actually quite clear just sometimes hard to put into words.

A summary can mean many things such as the summary of a book that’s on the back cover, giving the reader a bit of insight into the story to hopefully grasp their attention and make them want to read more. It can also be a summary of what a person read, like in an English class the teacher will want a summary of a chapter that was just read or a summary of someone’s presentation. A summary is just a brief explanation that when the next person reads it, allows them to understand what’s going or what might happen if they continue reading. It can also help to give a summary when describing something on a website to give the reader a heads up on what’s going to be on the site itself. I’m going to insert an example of both actually of how a summary is on a website and for a book all at once. This link will take you to the Barnes and Noble website, where I have chosen a book and in the overview section, it gives me a quick summary of what the book is going to be about:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maid-sama-volume-1-hiro-fujiwara/1101050315#Details.

An analysis is taking a piece of writing and looking at it through the lens of a writer and not a reader. Though you can do it as a reader, it is often better to do it as a writer so that you can get a better grasp on certain areas such as the author’s writing abilities and what kind of writing methods do they use throughout the piece. This tends to come up in Creative Writing classes. Since you are taking the class to study and become a better writer, what better way to do it than analyzing another writer’s work and learning off of them. An analysis can also be used in science, politics and business but for the sake of the subject, let’s stick with writing. This following link will give you an analysis that was used for The book of Ruth.

http://bible.org/article/literary-analysis-book-ruth.

Good Writers and Good Readers

Delaney Abajian

Eng102

Nabokov thinks that a good reader should not read with his heart and not with his brain but should read from his spine so that the reader can still be a little aloof and a little detached. The reader should have an imagination, memory, dictionary and some artistic sense. That a reader really doesn’t read a story, they reread it instead. I do agree with him because what his says makes perfect sense. When he said to pick four out of the ten for what would make a good reader, picked the four that he picked out, though I think that imagination and memory are the most important out of them all. I do understand that reading from the “spine” is where the real action takes place for a reader but I must impose that the heart and brain should also work together with the spine. That way there will be different angles to the story and in the end should come up pretty cohesive.

I believe that I reader must have a form of imagination and a good memory. The imagination because what is the purpose of reading a book if you are not willing to try to create the story in your mind while reading it? It just doesn’t make any sense. It would be the same as reading something and then blindly signing away and saying that you understood what you just read when in fact, you don’t. This must be the writer coming out of me in some form or another. I also think that memory is a great characteristic that a good reader should have because throughout a book and storyline, there will be certain points or information that a reader will need to remember so that when a part comes and the information is needed, the reader will know and not become confused. I think in general, it’s nice to have a good memory because it also works in the same effect for writers.

I think that I am a good reader, with some need of improvement in certain areas because I will pick up a book and look at it, then decide whether I want to read it at all. I can be very picky and that is a downfall for a reader because then you are blocking out other stories that could be good but I will never know since I have it in my mind what I like and don’t like. It makes me narrow minded in the sense of the word. So being more open would be a good thing but also keep in mind what I like and dislike for that too is important for a reader to have, in small doses that is.

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