Lesson 9 | Combining Summaries
Encouragement & Review
It is amazing how things sharpen into focus as you whittle down a passage to the summaries of primary supports. Soon—very soon—you will be ready to write a great main point summary!
But first let’s review and give you a chance to refine your combining skills.
What we learned this lesson...
- Principles for combining sub-point summaries:
- Remove supporting propositions.
- Make one of the primary propositions an appropriate supporting proposition.
- If multiple sub-points express variations of the same truth, merge their shared essence.
- Hone in with clarity on core theological truths.
- Three purposes behind combining summaries:
- To move closer to a main-point summary
- To get help in building our your bracket
- To further verify your bracket
- Don’t get stumped! ...by adding in the kitchen sink.