Summary of Chapter 46 Writing about Texts

          In Chapter 46 of Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker, I learned about ways to engage in your reading using annotation and seeing the purpose of the text or advertisement, as was the case with the McDonald's ad that is trying to persuade onlookers that McDonald's food is healthy. The main goal of summarizing is to state the main idea and key points of the text. Analyzing is breaking down the whole picture into little bits than can be disected and understood from different perspectives and different intentions to give you a clearer picture of the purpose and what the author uses to give the reader the perspective intended.