Summarizing

A Communicator processes some information (either from textual or real-world/perceptual sources) regarding a State_of_affairs into a concise form (a summary) that contains the essential content in briefer form, and communicates this summary to an Addressee, or records it in a Medium. The State_of_affairs may be represented directly (e.g., outline what happened, the situation abroad), or as a textual source (summarizing the documents), or metonymically as some focal entity (a synopsis of the candidates). Frank has already summarized some of the reactions on his weblog. Director Van Auken gave a brief informational synopsis of each applicant. He boiled down the argument for domestic wiretapping in one plainspoken and effective, if also deceptive, line... You should be able to summarize your findings to a lay audience. In her materials, she also outlined the situation and major problems facing the company. Some LUs, such as summarize and synopsis entail a preexisting body of information that has been processed into a briefer form by the Communicator. Others, such as outline and blueprint are compatible with, but do not entail, a preexisting, fully fleshed-out concept. E.g., Her book outlines a new proposal for handling grammaticalization, though she doesn't flesh it out entirely.