Guides
How to boil an article down to one honest post: what to keep, how to credit the source, and the mistakes that turn a summary into a misquote.
How to Summarize an Article in One Post
A step-by-step method for squeezing a whole article into one post under 280 characters: find the claim, keep the number, credit the source, leave room for the link.
Quoting and Citing Sources on Social Media
How to quote an article fairly in a post, how much text is reasonable to excerpt, how to credit writers and outlets, and why linking back matters more than tagging.
How to Avoid Misleading Summaries
The seven ways short summaries distort articles: dropped hedges, swapped numbers, lost context, wrong speaker and more, with a quick check for each before you post.
How to Write a Good TL;DR
What a TL;DR is for, where it goes, how long it should be and how to write one a reader can act on, with before-and-after examples for memos, news and studies.
How to Summarize Research News Responsibly
How to share a new study in one post without overstating it: find the paper, check the sample and design, keep the hedges and skip the press release hype.