Should writing the summary be part of the "start a new Hub" page?

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  1. rachellrobinson profile image85
    rachellrobinsonposted 13 years ago

    Should writing the summary be part of the "start a new Hub" page?

    I don't know about the rest of you but I have the hardest time remembering to write my summary. I wonder if that should be on the first page when you click start a new hub, title it, pick the category before you go on you have to write a couple sentences what the hub will be about.

  2. JEDIJESSICUH profile image82
    JEDIJESSICUHposted 13 years ago

    No, because whenever I start a hub it doesn't always end up how I planned it to be. It'll take a different turn or become something entirely different. And sometimes I'm just trying to save ideas and don't have time to do more than pick a category and log off. I almost always forget to write a summary and a reminder would be nice, but isn't that was the As are for?

  3. Glenn Stok profile image65
    Glenn Stokposted 13 years ago

    Funny you mention that.  When I first started on HubPages about two years ago, that is exactly how it was. It was part of the entire "create a hub" thing. Then one day it was removed and I had trouble finding how to include my summary. I never knew why HP removed it from the main focus. But I soon found where it was hidden away along with all the other important things that needs to be specified for a new hub, such as the group, the settings, even the tags. So I continued to enter my summary and made it part of the entire process every time I published another hub.

    As for how to write a summary. One trick is to use the first sentence of the hub. But many times I do that backwards. After completing the hub I write a short summary, only to realize that my summary would make a better introductory first paragraph than the one I first wrote. So I add it to the beginning of the hub and ALSO use it for the summary.
     
    Hope that helps in some way.

  4. Howard S. profile image75
    Howard S.posted 13 years ago

    No. You either draft the hub in a word process or directly into capsules.

    If you compose on the fly directly into capsules, there are still other important items off to the right that need to be addressed: group, tags, etc. With this method, you really don't have more than a general impression of what the hub is about until you're done.  When you've finished, you can tease the reader cogently and succinctly in 250 characters or less, and use a couple of keyword phrases in the process.

    If you compose in a word processor, then you have the summary to start with and can enter it first, but only if you remembered to write it. I write the article, then the introductory first paragraph, and finally the summary teaser.

    Extra credit pet peeve:
    >>The first paragraph is an *introduction* to prepare the reader for the body of the hub.
    >>In the publishing industry, a *summary* is the concluding paragraph(s) to succinctly review the hub contents.
    >>In the publishing industry, a *teaser* (HP summary) is used to pique the reader's interest, whet his appetite and hook them into wanting to click and read.

 
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