Agood summary of an informational text must
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include all the details that the text contains about its subject.
state, in the student's own words, only the most important ideas.
evaluate whether the text's author covered the subject matter well.
use phrases and sentences taken directly from the original author.

The literature of nineteenth-century realism depicted everyday life in a realistic way. which statements show that leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich is a realist text? the description of human struggles in the form of ivan ilyich’s suffering the faithfulness of relationships that ivan ilyich experiences toward the end of his life the romantic tension that occurs between ivan ilyich and his wife the difference between superficial and authentic living the plot ending with a surprising turn of events