Two Ways to Summarize an Event

In this video, learn two ways to summarize an event. Summarizing events is a core component of storytelling and essential to any form of writing. Being able to summarize an event shows not only an understanding of the event itself, but also chronological reasoning and analysis. This video features:
Observation + Cause-Effect Sandwich
Observation + Explanation + Analysis

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“There was also a moment in which Styles allegedly spit on Pine during the seating for the premiere. In the clip, Styles, arriving at his seat, seems to spit into Pine’s lap; at that same moment, Pine appears to react by stopping his applause and flashes a look many read as something between annoyance and bemusement. Having zoomed in on photos and slow-motion scrubbed back and forth on the videos that exist of Styles sitting down next to Pine, I am exhausted at looking at Styles’s lip quiver but did not see any spittle flying in any one direction. There’s also a theory that Pine was merely realizing his sunglasses were on his lap at the same time that Styles approached him. Pine’s rep has flatly denied that there was spitting, calling it a “result of an odd online illusion.”
Alex Abad-Santos, “The many scandals of Don’t Worry Darling, explained” Vox

“The Richmond Bread Riot, which took place in the Confederate capital of Richmond on April 2, 1863, was the largest and most destructive in a series of civil disturbances throughout the South during the third spring of the American Civil War (1861–1865). By 1863, the Confederate economy was showing signs of serious strain. Congress’s passage of an Impressment Act, as well as a tax law deemed “confiscatory,” led to hoarding and speculation, and spiraling inflation took its toll, especially on people living in the Confederacy’s urban areas. When a group of hungry Richmond women took their complaints to Virginia governor John L. Letcher, he refused to see them. Their anger turned into a street march and attacks on commercial establishments. Only when troops were deployed and authorities threatened to fire on the mob did the rioters disperse. More than sixty men and women were arrested and tried, while the city stepped up its efforts to relieve the suffering of the poor and hungry.
Mary DeCredico “The Richmond Bread Riot” Encyclopedia Virginia