Cecille's Creativity

How can a long selection be short? How can a wide ideas be condensed without losing its important parts?

Summarizing gives us the idea to briefly made long statements short in which the main points are still there. There are no alterations nor deleted important ideas, instead it makes a precise and concise statement of ideas based on one's own words. Summarizing is well called by other names as precis, abstract, digest and synopsis.

When we say Precis, it uses reader's own words through briefly stating the essential ideas of a longer prose or verse. In other words, the ideas presented here are those that without comment or interpretation, but rather it upholds to embrace the presentation of the ideas using the same mood, tone and using the same point of view as the original text.

Abstract is for the summarizing forms of reports, journals, papers and addresses at professional meetings. They are mostly needed and used by specialists in numerous fields who may not have time to read all the studies being done in their field. 

Lastly, Digest is for article printed in a periodical and/or abridgment of the article. In fact, it stays sections of the article unchanged.

Summarizing can be fun. Once you have mastered it, it will surely make work faster and effective. That is why, in order to make summarizing an obvious talent and art in writing, one must select only the important ideas to be considered in summarizing. It is best to re-estate accurately each main idea, omit those umimportant ones, combine two or more sentences into one sentence and as much as possible, it should be approximately as one-third of the original text.

Always remember that when you summarize, take into account the very main thought - Be brief!