EXERCISE IN SUMMARY- AND PRÉCIS-WRITING

Summary- and précis-writing are not useless exercises. It is by trying to summarize the ideas that you see whether you have actually understood a document or a book that you have read. You summarize ideas, consciously or unconsciously, in your daily life, for example when someone asks you "What was the movie about?" You need the technique to deal with documents in your Civilization courses and it is indespensable in research, from the research paper to the doctoral thesis. It allows you to identify the themes that link documents you wish to synthesize. Even a book review obliges you to summarize your reading. So it is not surprising that it is an absolutely indispensable technique. If you are not certain of the differences between a summary, a précis and an abstract, refer to the definitions (see below). Otherwise, begin exercise.

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