Chapter 1 of "What It Takes" by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen covers summaries. A summary is an explanation of events or content in a book or passage. There are three qualities that create a good summary: brevity, completeness, and objectivity. The authors explain that it is difficult to remain objective because to write a summary one has to "select some aspects of the original and leave out others" (1). They go on to explain how a summary is a work of one's interpretation. There is one factor that can determine how one interprets a passage, and this would be prior knowledge. Many people tend to draw from their own bank of knowledge when it comes to writing a summary. Because many people draw from prior knowledge, it causes many to