Critical précis
Written work summarising the main ideas and arguments of a longer text / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A critical précis, or sometimes rhetorical précis, is a short work written in an expository style similar to an essay. It summarises all the main ideas, arguments, and abstractions[1] from longer text. The purpose of a critical précis is to make the original author's thesis more accessible by allowing readers to skip non-essential components of the original work. The writers of précis avoid copying directly from the original text—excepting cited quotations—to avoid academic plagiarism.
Précis creation is commonly assigned in humanities and liberal arts classes. Typical lengths are less than 500 to 1500 words.