[Rstlist] Preparation, Restatement, and Summary

[Potter, Andrew Nelson]

Preparation, Restatement, and Summary are late additions to the list of Presentational relations.  Restatement and Summary were originally designated as Subject Matter relations,  and Preparation was not originally included at all.  I can see how Preparation belongs there.  Its intended effect is that the reader will be more ready, interested, or oriented for reading the nucleus.
Restatement and Summary, however, are no so clear.  Restatement, as defined (http://www.sfu.ca/rst/01intro/definitions.html and elsewhere), states that the reader will recognize that the satellite is a restatement of the nucleus.  That sounds a bit like saying that the intent of the Restatement relation is that the reader will recognize that the restatement is a restatement.  I don’t understand what inclination in the reader that applies to.  Summary is similarly defined.  The effect of Summary is that the reader will recognize that the summary is a summary.  Or am I just not reading these definitions correctly?
I can imagine making the case that the intended effects of Restatement and Summary are to increase reader comprehension, similar the Background relation.  But that’s not what the good book says...
Any thoughts?
  Andrew

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Andrew Potter, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Information Systems
University of North Alabama

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