This document introduces the SLAM model for summarizing information, which stands for State, Locate, Add, and Make. According to the model, the first sentence should state part of the question, the second sentence should locate evidence from the text, the third sentence can add the writer's own thoughts, and the fourth sentence should make a meaningful conclusion or connection. It then provides an example summary applying this model to summarize an excerpt about an interview with Professor Pierson on page 181 that provides new information about a meteorite.

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2. SLAM
State part of the question in the first sentence.
Locate the evidence.
Add your own thoughts
Make a meaningful conclusion or connection

3. The interview with Professor Pierson
adds to the plot by presenting the listeners
with new information. In the text, on page
181 Professor Pierson shares in an
interview that “. . .friction with the
earth’s atmosphere usually tears holes in a
meteorite.” From this he deduces that the
object must not be from earth. I can tell
that this would help people listening to
this on the radio understand that this
object was not of this world. This adds to
the plot by setting up what will happen
when the strange object opens.