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  2. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    This short summary would generally go in the lead of the article. Now that we have that, the next step is to figure out what the parts of that claim are that we're going to have to explain. There are three major ones—there's a young girl, a dangerous wolf, and an encounter. We're going to have to explain what all of those are.

  3. Wikipedia:Short description - Wikipedia

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    Fewer than 3% of short descriptions are longer than 60 characters, and short descriptions longer than 100 characters will be flagged for attention. Short descriptions exceeding 40 characters may be truncated in some contexts. [note 3] Because they are intended to be scanned quickly, longer, more specific descriptions can be less useful.

  4. Executive summary - Wikipedia

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    An executive summary (or management summary, sometimes also called speed read) is a short document or section of a document produced for business purposes. It summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    Too short leaves the reader unsatisfied; too long is intimidating, difficult to read, and may cause the reader to lose interest halfway. These suggestions may be useful: The length should conform to readers' expectations of a short, but useful and complete, summary of the topic. Few well-written leads will be shorter than about 100 words.

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions - Wikipedia

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    However, when exporting a modified short description to Wikidata it is necessary to go to Wikidata and manually edit the description there to change the first uppercase letter to lower case. Shortdesc helper will provide a standardised edit summary describing the edit. A custom edit summary can be added using the "summary" button.

  7. Elevator pitch - Wikipedia

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    An elevator pitch quickly summarises an idea, product or service during a short journey in an elevator. An elevator pitch, elevator speech, lift speech, or elevator statement is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the concept in a way such that any listener can understand it in a short period of time. This ...

  8. Synopsis - Wikipedia

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    A synopsis (pl.: synopses) is a brief summary of the major points of a subject or written work or story, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work. Synopsis or synopsys may also refer to: Video synopsis, an approach to create a short video summary of a long video

  9. Wikipedia:How to streamline a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    If the plot is short enough, you can let through some extra detail. If it's 1000 words, then the flowery words should be the first casualties. Modern English is a weird language with German, Greek, and Latin roots. There's almost always a way to rephrase imprecise words instead of using modifiers: "The boy sees a dead body."