Problem: Article: Use warm water and soap to wash your hands. This will prevent bacteria from entering your eyes which can lead to infection (like acanthamoeba keratitis). Dry your hands on a clean towel. Avoid toweling the fingertips that will touch your eyes, so you don't get towel fibers on your fingers. Keep your nails trimmed and cleaned. Removing contacts with long nails can tear or split the contacts. Your vision is blurry when eyes are dry so it can be difficult to tell if the contact is in place or not. Pull your lower eyelid down and apply a few drops of saline or artificial tears to hydrate the lens a little. This should make it easier to remove. Be careful when applying saline drops. The tip of the bottle shouldn't touch your eye. Doing so can introduce bacteria into your eye. In a pinch, some contact lens disinfecting solutions are safe to apply. Use caution though if the bottle tip is red or there are warnings on the bottle about not putting the solution in your eye, then don't use it. This is a first indication of whether or not the contact is still in your eye. If your contact is truly stuck in your eye, your eye will probably feel very uncomfortable or it may hurt to open it. Your eye may water and hurt if the contact is stuck under the lid or in the corner of your eye. You can try simply looking in the mirror. The contact might have shifted slightly off the cornea, but may still visible on the center of your eye. If you still can't find the contact, consider whether or not it could have fallen out while you slept. Or, it may just be stuck in a hard to see spot, like underneath your upper eyelid. If you've truly lost the contact, it may have fallen out. In this case, you won't find the contact by looking throughout your eye. If you don't see the eyelid on your cornea (in the center of your eye), lift your upper eyelid while you look downward. Shine a flashlight underneath the eyelid to help find the contact. If your contact is "lost" in your eye, you'll probably feel a strange sensation, like something is stuck in your eye. The contact may have folded and is hiding under the eyelid. Shining a flashlight can make this easier to see. If both of your contacts are out of place, you won't be able to see clearly. Ask a parent, roommate or friend to help you find your contacts. The helper can shine a flashlight in your eyes to locate the lenses. If you're comfortable with it, the helper could even assist you by removing the contacts from your eyes for you. Your helper can also look around your bedroom to see if the contacts fell out while you slept. Blink and use your fingertips to rub on the closed eyelid to get the contact to move. You may need to add more saline to hydrate it so it moves easily. Avoid rubbing your eyelids against the contact unless you've added moistening drops. Rubbing dry contacts could scratch the surface of your eye. If your contacts feel very dry, it may take several applications of saline drops and time before they start to feel moist again. Wait 15 minutes to give them a chance to become fully hydrated. Don't try to remove the lens until it slides around your eye like normal. Attempting to rip it off may cause an injury. Also, don't try to unfold the lens before removing it from you eye since you're more likely to tear it.
Summary: Wash your hands. Hydrate the eye with saline or rewetting drops. Evaluate whether or not you can see. Check if the contact is still in place. Look under the upper eyelid. Ask for help. Move the contact from underneath your eyelid. Wait and rehydrate.

Problem: Article: Take your notes out and compare them to your from-memory draft. If there's anything major you forgot to include, put it in your second draft. Rather than jumping around to different parts of the story or article, you should explain what happened in the sequence that it happened. This is especially important for summarizing works of fiction. Sometimes in an article or book, the author might make the same point multiple times as a way to underline their main points. In your summary, you don't need to do this. When you're rereading your summary, delete any repetitive points even if the author makes them multiple times, you only need to make them once. If you notice an author has made the same point multiple times, though, it's a good indicator that this is an important point, and it should definitely be in your summary. If you're focused on getting all of the main points down, you might not be paying attention to how the paragraphs of your summary fit together. When you revise, make sure that you connect each paragraph to the next, and back to the main point. For example, in a summary of an article about the cause of the American Revolution, you might have a paragraph that summarizes the author's arguments about taxes, and another about religious freedom. You can say something like, "Although some colonists believed that taxes should entitle them to representation in Parliament, the author also argues that other colonists supported the Revolution because they believed they were entitled to representation in heaven on their own terms." Once you've finished revising the arguments in your draft, check the little things. Make sure there are no spelling or grammar mistakes. Look for any additional or missing punctuation and correct that as well. Don't use spell-checker for spelling errors. It will catch if you spell something wrong, but not if you use the wrong spelling of a word. For example, it won't catch that you used "there" when you meant "their." Once you've added anything you might have forgotten to your summary, check how long it is. If you're summarizing something for a school assignment, be sure to stick to the parameters or guidelines provided by your instructor. Generally, a summary should be around one quarter the length of the original piece. So if the original piece is 4 pages long, your summary should be no more than 1 page. Another person may see an argument or point in a completely different light than you have, giving you a new feel for the work and yours. Not only should they be comparing your work for accuracy, ask them to read it for flow and summation. They should be able understand what happened in the article or story by reading your summary alone. Don't hesitate to ask for criticism; then weigh those criticisms and make valid changes.
Summary:
Reread the draft you wrote from memory against your notes. Present the summary in chronological order. Eliminate repetition. Add transitions where necessary. Check for grammatical and spelling errors. Check your length. Ask someone else to read your work.