When you summarize, you take the main points of a story and write in in a few sentences. You want to make sure you hit all the key parts of the story and don't focus on the small details. If you were telling a friend about a movie you saw, you would by describe the major events, but not the little moments. That would be summarizing. You can do this with any book,movie,story etc. :)
Gerund or present participle
Answer: Evaluating evidence allows you to have a more rational and logical outlook on problems and situations that you may encounter, rather than basing your decisions off of emotion or inaccurate sources. Having reliable evidence that you have thoroughly evaluated enables you to make better decisions and view things from an unbiased point of view.
Sorry. I'm not sure if this helps or not, but this is the best that I've got (╥﹏╥)
The answer would be no there was no gossip swirling
