Don’t Summarize When You Should Analyze

Jim LaBate
5 min readApr 6, 2022
Photo by Myke Simon on Unsplash

When you return from the movies and when your friends or family members ask you about the film you just viewed, how do you answer? Do you start at the beginning and give a long, detailed summary of every incident all the way through to the climax and the conclusion? Or do you give a quick analysis (“Fantastic!” or “What a waste!”) and then gradually explain the reasons why anyone should, or should not, pay full price to…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.