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- Avoid starting each annotation with “This chapter will” or “The reader will.”
- Use an active voice. Avoid “ing” words. You can’t eliminate them all but at least be careful.
- If applicable, include the “big idea” or the key benefit of this chapter.
- Keep it to one paragraph…maybe two. You aren’t rewriting the chapter, merely summarizing it.
- Think of each chapter as a speech you are giving. If you are asked for a one paragraph pitch for that speech, how would it read? That pitch is an executive summary of the hour long presentation you’ll make later.