Looking online for articles on how to write Executive Summaries (for the content of the previous post), I came across a lot of references regarding the “Executive Summary” section of Business Plans. I’ve included some of them below for future reference:
captureplanning.com had a couple of articles that seemed useful:
‘Executive Summary’ Category at captureplanning.com
The Three Uses of Executive Summaries
Questions to Answer
Executive Summaries in a Nutshell
The one that I finally ended up using to frame my own summary:
How to Write an Abstract
Perhaps the most amusing part about the whole thing is that, upon delivering the 8 page article and the summary I had just sweated over, one member of the audience glanced at it and then said “give me the highlights” – at which point I condensed it even further to the point of a single, spoken paragraph. On the one hand, it made me feel as if I may have wasted some time writing the summary – on the other, if I hadn’t just spent that time putting the summary together, maybe I wouldn’t have been able to summarize the article on-the-spot as well as I did.
