What is a characteristic of a good summary?

It includes a personal opinion

It is written in the authors own words

It is written from a first-person point of view

It includes direct quotations from the text

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A characteristic of a good summary is that it is written in the author's own words. A summary aims to convey the main points and ideas of a text without incorporating personal opinions or direct quotations, and it typically avoids using a first-person point of view.