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Summarising
Read and understand the text carefully.
Think about the purpose of the text. Ask what the author's purpose is in writing the text?
Select the relevant information.
Find the main ideas - what is important.
Change the structure of the text, make it easier.
Rewrite the main ideas in complete sentences.
Check your work.
A summary is a shortened version of a text. It contains the main points in the text and is written in your own words. It is a mixture of reducing a long text to a short text and selecting relevant information. A good summary shows that you have understood the text.
Look at this example:
Source
The amphibia, which is the animal class to which our frogs and toads belong, were the first animals to crawl from the sea and inhabit the earth.
Summary
The first animals to leave the sea and live on dry land were the amphibia.