Summarising

Summarising requires that you use important thinking and writing skills which can be crucial to successful results. It allows you to demonstrate that you have understood the content of a text and are able to reshape information to suit the different writing tasks that you may need to carry out.

Knowing how to summarise allows you to capture the main ideas of a text in a shorter space, using key words and phrases.

This unit will help you to decide what to leave in and what to leave out when you write a summary.