To Make a Long Story Short: Summary Skills for Better Readers and Writers

For more about the rules of summarizing, and how readers interact with text, Emily Kissner provided these references:

• Brown, A. and J. Day. 1983. "Macrorules for Summarizing Texts: The Development of Expertise." Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22: 1-14.
  
• van Dijk, T.A and W. Kintsch. 1978. "Toward a model of text comprehension and production." Psychological Review, 85: 363-394.