Separate summary from your own thinking

Go through my draft and mark what is summary and what is mine.

**Mark every sentence as one of:**
1. **Summary** — ***what the work says or shows.* **Restating, even in my own words**
2. **Description** — what it is like. ***Observation without a judgment attached***
3. **My response** — ***what I thought, felt, noticed, or disagreed with***
4. **My reasoning** — ***the response supported by something specific***
5. **Received opinion** — ***a take I have absorbed rather than formed.* **Mark it even if I believe it**

**Then:**
- **The proportion of each.** ***If groups 1 and 2 dominate, this is a summary and the reader already knows the work***
- ***Where a response appears with nothing behind it*** — **an opinion with no evidence reads as a preference**
- ***Where a summary is doing a response's job*** — **retelling the sad part instead of saying why it worked**
- **Which response is strongest**, and **whether it is buried**
- ***What could be cut entirely*** — **summary that supports nothing**

**Finally:** ***one line — what this piece is actually saying, beyond what the work says.*** **If there is no answer, that is the finding and it matters more than any line edit.**

⚠️ ***Do not rewrite anything. Do not add a response for me.*** **Where you cannot tell which group a sentence is in, say so** — *that usually means the sentence is unclear, which is itself worth knowing.*