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Burroway Chapter Summaries

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Burroway’s ideas on Summary and Scene are certainly helpful, but as I was reading the chapter, I was hoping that it would bring up Exposition and explain how it differs from Summary. I wanted to know the difference between the two because I’m worried that I might accidentally write Exposition when I’m trying to write Summary. While I couldn’t find an exact answer in the text, I did find one by making a few inferences. I think Exposition is a specific type of Summery, particularly when the story is simply telling the information, regardless of whether it’s from a long period of time or a short one. In other words, it is what Burroway calls “a general, perfunctory summary” (195). Therefore, if I want to write a good summary, I should make

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