What do you need in order to summarize an event or piece of writing

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Explanation:

There are many instances in which you will have to write a summary. You may be assigned to write a one or two page summary of an article or reading, or you may be asked to include a brief summary of a text as part of a response paper or critique. Also, you may write summaries of articles as part of the note-taking and planning process for a research paper, and you may want to include these summaries, or at least parts of them, in your paper.

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the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)